Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the court adopted a new, higher standard of proof that public officials would have to meet as plaintiffs: they would have to prove "actual malice" on the part of the journalist. That meant something far more sweeping than political opposition or personal ill will; malice was defined as, at minimum, publishing a story despite having substantial doubt beforehand that it was true. At the time, this distinction was considered effective immunity for any responsible news organization. The actual malice standard, it appeared, simply left the door open a crack for suits by public officials against scandal sheets...
This ruling, which was soon extended to other libel cases, left journalists nearly as vulnerable for what they did not say as for what they did. It opened to question their judgments and private opinions as much as their public assertions of fact. It also created a bizarre situation in which the more careful a journalist is, the more vulnerable he becomes to charges of malice: a reporter whose extensive research leads him to conclude that one side is right in a dispute can be accused of malice for discounting the evidence on the other side, while a writer...
...product of the shopping-mall culture," says Rock Journalist Dave Marsh of Madonna. "But there's also a real rock side to her, a side that's independent and honest, that says, 'You don't like me, that's your problem.' " But some people in the music business have that problem. "McDonna," goes the current industry gag: "Over 1 million served." Others, whether they like Madonna or not, find her different from Lauper. "To me, Cyndi is more of an artist than Madonna," says Irving Azoff, president of MCA Records. "Cyndi Lauper will be around for a long time," says...
That image has made Madonna rock's first girlie pinup since Deborah Harry. An enterprising journalist for the English rock-fashion magazine The Face inquired if "she found it difficult deciding to lose her virginity." "Oh no," Madonna shot right back. "I thought of it as a career move." Says Marsh: "She presents herself as very tough and sluttish, which people seem able to accept very easily from Mick Jagger, but not from her. And look at Linda Ronstadt. She was at least as 'sluttish' as Madonna. Madonna never had her picture taken in a pigsty with shorts...
...business. Flowers, Paris, beauty. I'd spend the summer in the Crimea. I'd wear clothes made in the West. I'd have children, a car and a diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad...