Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Morrison flopped on his job. The Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial had claimed a big share in Labor's 1945 victory and its return to power in 1950, and Fleet Street whispered that the paper had become Morrison's mouthpiece. Finally the Mirror was sued for libel by Winston Churchill, for labeling him a warmonger during the last election...
What about libel? The FCC expressed its bureaucratic regrets, but insisted that if a candidate libels his opponent or anyone else, the station must take its chances in court with the libeler. Explained an FCC spokesman: "We can't protect the stations in such instances. Congress has established the law, and the commission is forced to enforce...
...states and one territory* have already enacted protective legislation safeguarding the stations from such libel actions. But unless Congress acts to take all broadcasters off the libel hook, many stations may adopt the only alternative left them and refuse to carry any political speeches...
...Communists are proud of Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank," he cried, and in the next breath, "Concealed Communists are the greatest menace that the United States has ever faced!" The connection was crystal clear, but this indirect method makes it impossible for accused men to sue for libel...
Carrington said last night that he planned no legal action against the man who at one time during World War II was on trial for sedition. "It's pretty hard to prove libel," he said, "and besides, Smith is too much of a crack-pot to bother with...