Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is community life," says Amy Hall, a resident. "If we lived in the South American jungle, you'd be saying, 'Save the natives.' We're the natives here." The Rev. Robert Runcie, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, goes even further, charging that tourism "creates pollution, prostitution, economic exploitation and disregard for indigenous life-styles...
...syntax and went even further, stating that "deliberate alteration of the words uttered by a plaintiff does not equate with knowledge of falsity" for the purpose of meeting the actual malice test for libel suits brought by a public figure. Changing a quotation, Kennedy reasoned, can betray a reckless disregard for the truth only "when the alteration results in a material change in the meaning conveyed by the statement." Whether that sort of alteration happened when Malcolm profiled Masson will now be decided by a trial jury in California...
...Student disregard for the council affected not only its reputation, but also its pocketbook. The council's budget--much of which gets funneled directly to student organizations--was hurt by a large increase in the number of students who chose to withhold council dues from their tuition checks...
...defamatory. You have to prove you've been harmed. These constraints will take care of most of the nightmare scenarios journalists worry about, such as being sued for "cleaning up" quotes. Above all, if X is a public figure, you have to prove the misquote was committed with "reckless disregard for the truth." (The lawyers call this "actual malice" -- the "actual" being a lawyer's way of indicating that it doesn't actually mean malice...
...America all professionals except journalists live in fear of lawsuits. Journalists are rightly alarmed that the mere accusation of fake quotes could land a journalist in a costly lawsuit, and the Supreme Court should protect us against that. But if quotes are made up, this alone surely displays reckless disregard for the truth. The claim of Malcolm and her defenders that the Constitution should protect even purposely made-up quotes, as long as the author thinks they reflect the subject's views, is an embarrassment...