Reince Priebus states that President Donald Trump has looked at changing libel laws. These are laws that safeguard free speech. Libel laws are not Federal laws. They are individual state laws. It would take a constitutional amendment to weaken press freedom. It is scary that President Donald Trump would even consider this. How very Hitler and Putin of him. Freedom was not allowed in Hitler's time. Putin cracks down in a back alley way. Research LGBTQ in Chechnya.
Libel is defined by Merriam Webster as the act of publishing a false statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone. The key word here is false. There is action for a false statement.
No one likes to be wrong. It reminds a person that there are things they have not learned. Some people go into the subject and learn what they did not know. There is unfortunately some people that learning appears not to be desirable to them. They claim that what they were wrong about is fake and made up. They deny anything they said even if it is on video tape. I mentally hear a whine followed by "Nobody like me. They lie on me."
I tell all who do this one thing. If you did or said something wrong that has come back to haunt you, own it. Tell everyone, "Yep-I did it. I had a mild case of jackass behavior. Won't let that happen again. If I do, counting on you to let me know." There can't be a fire if there is no fuel.
Change it a little if you feel that you are right. Tell the the people who brought it to your attention that from their viewpoint you can see why they are angry. Tell the people why you said what you did or where the momentum for your action came from. Remember that a living breathing organism changes as it grows and adapts. If you were wrong, own it and share plans for change. If you are right, agree to disagree. Make plans to work together.
I watched news feeds and read information from the following links.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_website
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump
http://fortune.com/2017/04/30/reince-priebus-libel-laws-trump/
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/30/media/reince-priebus-libel-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reince_Priebus
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-official-weve-looked-libel-laws-restrict/story?id=47114566
https://trofire.com/2017/05/01/reince-priebus-says-trump-considering-abolishing-1st-amendment/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-threatens-to-weaken-first-amendment-protections-for-reporters/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/01/priebus-says-trump-administration-considered-changes-to-libel-laws.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331299-trump-chief-of-staff-weve-looked-at-changing-libel-laws
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