New York/Los Angeles/Washington | Disney’s $US15 million ($23.6 million) defamation payout to Donald Trump has set a dangerous precedent for media freedom, said legal experts and news executives, as the incoming president threatens to “straighten out” the “corrupt” press.
Disney-owned ABC News last week agreed to pay Trump the sum to settle a defamation suit he brought in March after star anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly and inaccurately said on-air that the former president had been found “liable for rape”.
