Media accused of defaming veteran who saved 24 women in Afghanistan

 PJ Media:

Zachary Young was a security contractor in 2021 when Joe Biden ordered all Americans to leave Afghanistan. He undertook several missions to save two dozen women from falling into the hands of the Taliban after media companies contracted with him to rescue them.

There was nothing illegitimate about what Young did. It was not illegal. But several media outlets included his efforts to rescue the women as examples of "smuggling" and "black market profiteering."

The reporting by CNN nearly destroyed his life. For that, Young sued the network and won a handsome defamation settlement.

But CNN wasn't the only outlet that ran stories naming Young specifically as someone who was profiting from evacuating civilians. Young has since sued the Associated Press, Puck, and now U.S. News and World Report, for framing what he did in rescuing women from Afghanistan as "black market" or illegal.

In an op-ed for the Daily Mail published in February, Young explained the effect on his life that CNN's deliberate lies cost him.
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I find it strange that some in the media would not appreciate Young's heroic efforts to save the women and characterize it as nefarious.