{"id":894269,"date":"2025-01-09T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=894269"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:17:20","slug":"cnn-defamation-trial-comes-at-a-rough-time-for-legacy-media-and-for-the-struggling-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/09\/cnn-defamation-trial-comes-at-a-rough-time-for-legacy-media-and-for-the-struggling-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media \u2014 and for the struggling network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the US ended its involvement there in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The veteran, Zachary Young, blames CNN for destroying his business when it displayed his face onscreen during a story that discussed a \u201cblack market\u201d in smuggling out Afghans for high fees at the time of the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the US ended its involvement there in 2021. The veteran, Zachary Young, blames CNN for destroying his business when it displayed his face onscreen during a story that discussed a \u201cblack market\u201d in smuggling out Afghans for high fees at the time of the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}