Word: libeler
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Easing the way for libel suits...
...more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has been trying to balance the public's right to know and the individual's right to protect his reputation. The court did not want to stop people who had been defamed from suing for libel. But at the same time, it wanted to make sure that the risk of costly libel suits would not prevent the press from publishing stories of public interest. So, in a line of cases going back to New York Times vs. Sullivan in 1964, the court gradually worked out a compromise: it made...
...order to help the Navy and NASA better select crewmen for submarines and spacecraft. Calling the project "monkey business," Proxmire announced in news releases and newsletters that he had honored it with one of his monthly "Golden Fleece Awards." Hutchinson sued him for $8 million in damages for libel. Another case involved a man named Ilya Wolston, a former State Department interpreter, who had been cited for contempt for refusing to appear before a grand jury investigating Soviet intelligence in 1958. He later cooperated, and was never indicted for espionage. When in 1974 Wolston was listed in a book called...
...reside in President Kennedy's appointee, Byron White. (He's not grateful either when newspaper accounts invariably recall that Mr. Justice White was once better known to you and me as Whizzer White, football star.) But each court attempt to redefine the press's responsibility in libel suits or criminal trials isn't necessarily tearing the First Amendment to tatters, neither are "American courts on a rampage" against the press, as former CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr argues. Critics often lament court decisions for their "chilling effect"-a mealy phrase that should have gone out with...
...Kampelman. It urges the establishment of a professional code of ethics, the use of internal ombudsmen, and passage of antitrust measures to contain the growth of media conglomerates. Perhaps most significant for Sinatra, Kampelman argues for statutory revisions that would make it easier for public figures to win libel suits...