[justinlink]

Claiming a journalist makes "false claims" and is "misleading" could be injurious to their reputation as a journalist. Which would hurt them in their business or profession.

It's not a slam dunk for him by any means, but I can understand why he filed.

[eli]

The bar for libel is high in the US. Something could be false, misleading and injurious to reputation and not be libel. Particularly if the person in question is a public figure, which is defined very broadly.

[tssva]

Ironically John Stossell has actually been caught making false and misleading claims previously. He had to know filing this would bring those episodes back up, so I don't know why he filed.

[eli]

Same reason Trump filed so many pointless libel suits. So that we would talk about them.