I don't know how you could sue anybody for libel for reporting that somebody is shopping a video of someone they claim is (and looks like) Rob Ford smoking crack.
That's a story I'd want our media in Canada to report everytime on any of our major politicians, and the public can make up its own mind on the merit of it. I never saw a story in print anywhere with the headline "Rob Ford smoked crack". If it's without merit, the libel/blame rests with the person incriminating Ford not the organizations reporting a fact, that someone was claiming he did and trying to sell a video of it.
Increasingly there is this notion among the extreme right wing that how dare anyone in the media question us or run a negative story and to perceive anybody criticizing them as their enemy. It's their damn job to run any story that's newsworthy, not to sculpt their narrative and pick stories that fit the view they already have ala Fox news or Sun news.
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