What Next: Sarah Palin v. the New York Times

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For decades, the press has enjoyed a wide latitude when writing about public figures. But the high legal standard for defamation may be coming in for some scrutiny in the libel suit of Sarah Palin versus the New York Times. Guest: Slate contributor Seth Stevenson. Read his latest coverage of the trial of Sarah Palin v. New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	Here at Slate, Seth Stevenson is the guy we send to big trials.
0:42.0	He started out covering the Microsoft antitrust trial that was nearly 25 years ago.
0:47.8	I covered Michael Jackson's trial and Scooter Libby and then Whitey Bulger and Johar Sonaya.
0:53.6	He got interested in his latest trial, Sarah Palin vs The New York Times, after he'd
0:59.8	been hanging around the Southern District of New York, reporting on a different prosecution.
1:04.9	I covered the Gillenn Maxwell trial, which is also in this district, and I sort of got
1:09.9	on the email list and they sent out notable trials upcoming and I saw this one and I said,
1:14.1	whoa, that's interesting.
1:15.5	And then I read a little bit more about it and I said, whoa, the future of American journalism
1:19.4	is possibly at stake here.
1:24.6	And I said, I would like to see that, so that's how I came to be there.
1:31.2	Sarah Palin vs The New York Times is about a journalistic error.
1:35.0	The stuff of every reporter's nightmares.
1:37.2	And I think part of the reason why this case has been so fascinating for people like
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