Word: libeler
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...down to the custom re-created headline type used by the Post in the 1930s and '40s. In format and much of its content, this is the homey, comfortable, non-controversial old Post of Ben Hibbs, not the later, slicker version which piled up some $500 million in libel suits as a result of its "sophisticated muckraking" and finally perished in 1969 from a combination of advertising atrophy and high-circulation pressure...
Unlike their more evanescent brothers of the flesh, the great figures of fiction are not covered by the laws of libel. Did not Sherlock Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
...aftermath of the Sanders cacophony some have argued that at a political rally anything goes short of actual violence. Just as the libel laws are relaxed for politicians and public officials, so their freedom of speech is limited by the right of the electorate to remonstrate with them at public rallies. They are as vulnerable, so the argument goes, to vocal as to printed abuse. This vulnerability is essential to ensure that the feelings of the citizenry are freely expressed to public officials whose control of the instruments of violence and disproportionate access to the communications media may tend...
...court cited the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: the New York Times vs. Sullivan libel case of 1964 which limited the definition of libel in cases involving public figures; and an articleon First Amendment rights by former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. as precedents for its decision...
Epstein then admitted, however, that since as a "public figure" he would find it difficult or impossible to collect damages for libel. Frost's defense of his racial attitudes was superfluous...