Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
Monday, December 7 SLATTERY'S PEOPLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A reporter's right to keep secret his sources is examined when state legislators threaten criminal libel proceedings...
Last week the Supreme Court reversed that conviction, -thereby extending to criminal libel the same rule it laid down for civil libel in last year's Alabama libel judgment against the New York Times: public officials cannot collect for public criticism unless a statement is "made with actual malice," meaning full knowledge that it was false. Though concurring, Justice Hugo Black argued, as he has before, that "There is absolutely no place in this country for the old, discredited English Star Chamber law of seditious libel...
...Curtis' worries, William C. Newberg, former president of the Chrysler Corp., last week filed a $2,000,000 libel suit claiming damage from a Post article about a management shakeup at Chrysler-the latest of some half-dozen actions generated during Clay Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" approach to journalism. Nor have Rebel Leaders Blair and Kantor had their last say. Both have brought suit against Curtis for the balance they claim is due them under unexpired contracts; both are collaborating on a book about Curtis' October revolution. Said Blair: "It will rock Philadelphia...
...Threats. Producer Saudek has hired good actors. Sidney Blackmer, who played the defense attorney in A Case of Libel, was an effective Underwood, and Victor Jory was full of smoke and chalk, manning the blackboards as Underwood's campaign manager. But best of all, the Underwood program gave a beaded-forehead impression of oldtime political conventions, with 103 ballots and whispered threats in hot hotel rooms. Ironically, it was good television about the good old days before political conventions were ruined by television...