Word: libeler
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Fishbein thinks nothing of paying telegraph tolls (fairly rare in trade magazines) on a 7,000-word medical article that he considers hot news. He boasts that he has been sued for a total of $35 million in libel suits-and never lost a suit. In his History, he proudly dates the A.M.A.'s "war against socialized medicine" from the year (1924) that he took over the Journal's editorship...
...Watched. His newspaper, the West African Pilot, has grown into a chain of five, spanning southern Nigeria with a total circulation of over 25,000. Ex-Strikebreaker Zik has been accused of inciting coalfield workers to strike and has won and lost a string of libel suits. By flamboyant and often crude tactics, Zik has built an enormous (7,000,000, says Zik) following among Nigerians, most of whom are illiterate. To keep tabs on him the British have CID detectives watching him constantly. He shrugs them off, says, "A man with a free conscience has nothing to worry about...
...York, a clam digger named Cornelius J. Broere conceived a novel legal theory: that towing a floating corpse to shore is as much a salvage operation as towing an abandoned ship to safety. He filed a libel action under the provisions of Admiralty Law for $2,133 discovered in the pockets of a dead man he fished out of Great South...
...Slander is defamation by word of mouth, legally a rather minor offense. Libel, much more serious, has always been defined by the law books as defamation by printed word...
...most immediately affected was Walter Winchell (an old hand at libel suits), who had sought dismissal of a $50,000 action. George W. Hartmann, a onetime Columbia University professor, had accused Winchell of libeling him on a January 1944 broadcast...