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...even casual trial followers are aware that a public figure who sues a newspaper or magazine for libel must prove not only that the story is false but that it was published with reckless disregard for the truth. This test of "actual malice" was meant to safeguard the press, but in practice it has proved a complex standard that is open to wide interpretation by juries. In recent years, seven out of every ten libel cases lost by the media have been overturned on appeal. However, in an unexpected reversal last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reinstated...
Support for the ANC reveals an inhuman disregard for the bloodbath that would attend any revolution in South Africa. Moreover, as history demonstrates, Marxist revolutions certainly produce totalitarian one-party dictatorships. Liberals who are sanguine about the consequences of Marxits revolutions should look at the human right relation of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe (where Mugabe's Morth Korean-trained Fifth Brigade has killed several thousand Ndebele supporters of Nkomo before they blithely condemn South Africans Black to a similar fate...
Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...
...trial has been under way since October. In order to win the suit, Westmoreland, as a public figure, must prove that the network either knew what it said about him was false, or acted in "reckless disregard" of evidence indicating that it was false. Westmoreland's lawyers, who finished presenting their evidence in early January, tried to establish that CBS had selectively quoted from some interviews to make them sound more damning and edited out others that benefited his side. CBS, in almost five weeks of subsequent testimony, has attempted both to back up the substance of the documentary...
...looked like Indiana Jones. Then came the long, slow tailspin into lunacy. By the time of his death in 1976, the image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written by or about Howard Hughes...