Word: libel
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...more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces a $25,000 legal bill that, because he was working on his behalf, not his employer's, he must pay out of his own pocket. It was a pointed reminder to reporters -- and would...
...Having a wide berth for freedom of speech is incredibly important,” says Slater. But he worries that in cases like Diebold’s, freedom is threatened. “Libel is being used to scare people with no credible reason...
...Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper's finances may be in worse shape than its reputation. It is carrying debt of at least €110 million, has had losses over the last three years of some...
...SENTENCED. BAMBANG HARYMURTI, 47, editor-in-chief of the Indonesian daily Tempo; to one year in prison for libel; in Jakarta. The court ruled that the Harvard-educated editor was guilty of "spreading wrongful information" about real estate tycoon Tomy Winata in a March 2003 story. Activists have decried the sentence as a blow to press freedom, criticizing the use of Indonesia's criminal code to prosecute a libel case. "The judges had a golden opportunity to write a new chapter in Indonesian history, but they did not take it," said Harymurti, who remains free pending appeal...
...least one child with one of them. The man who said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter," privately urged state officials to press seditious libel charges against editors unfriendly to his presidency. The advocate of a limited Federal Government and opponent of a permanent standing military doubled the size of the country in one stroke by making the Louisiana Purchase and went to war against Muslim pirates with a brand-new fighting force...