Legal experts and press organizations are warning that ABC News settling a defamation case with Donald Trump will have a “chilling effect” on the media going forward, while the president-elect seems determined to prove them right by unleashing more legal threats and lawsuits against news outlets and reporters.
Meanwhile, journalists are lighting into ABC’s willingness to “obey in advance” and “bend the knee” to Trump, claiming that the network and its corporate parent Walt Disney showed the incoming president just how to silence reporters.
