Word: libeled
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...discerning consumer of the Internet becomes more prominent. Wikipedia-wary professors warning against unaccountable, authorless sources preach this message time and time again. While the best advice to give a prospective Internet user is to take everything with a grain of salt, the reality of concrete injury from libelous and defamatory web content also needs to be addressed. Surely, the wonders of the Internet era have given our modern world an unprecedented level of information and exchange. But in addition to our unfettered access to news, government reports, and academic information, there exists an ocean of largely unaccountable, user-generated...
...British toddler Madeleine McCann from a vacation apartment in Portugal. But as the U.K.'s famously aggressive tabloid press prepares stories to mark the anniversary of that sad event, they are now likely to proceed with uncharacteristic caution: on Wednesday, London's High Court handed a libel victory to the child's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, with a chilling effect...
...calls "a campaign of harassment and vilification" that Mills and McCartney each accused the other of waging are detailed in his judgment, with murky tales of telephone tapping and private court documents being leaked to the media. These claims are likely to be hashed over in detail during separate libel actions relating to stories based on such leaks...
...Jury nullification is American dissent, as old and as heralded as the 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger, who was acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, and absent a government capable of repairing injustices, it is legitimate protest. If some few episodes of a television entertainment have caused others to reflect on the war zones we have created in our cities and the human beings stranded there, we ask that those people might also consider their conscience. And when the lawyers or the judge or your fellow jurors seek explanation, think for a moment...
...parking-lot attendants. The actors are ostensibly members of government from a parallel Indonesia - the "dreaming republic" of the show's title - where everything is the same apart from the spelling of leaders' names. Cast members always refer to Indonesia as "the neighboring country," introducing a modicum of libel defense that allows them to criticize the shortcomings of those who hold power, as well as talk about controversial issues from deforestation to illiteracy and corruption. "We are trying to let viewers know what is really happening behind the news," says Effendi Gazali, who plays the program's "political adviser...