re: #214 sattv4u2

Have you suddenly become a lawyer?

Not at all, but adversely reflecting on a person’s fitness to conduct their business or trade; is eye of the beholder

My recollection of the law of defamation is that it has to start with a false statement. I am not sure that the airing of a highly edited video counts: everything in the video is true. It just isn’t complete.

I don’t think an invasion of privacy action works either: the statements were intended for public consumption.

I’m a little hazy on the “false light” tort, but I think that requires falsity, too.

So count me as skeptical. Sympathetic, but skeptical.