Word: libeling
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...Supreme Court considered one kind of ranting not long ago in the case of a North Carolina man who wrote two colorful letters to the President urging him not to appoint a judge named David Smith as U.S. Attorney for North Carolina. Smith sued the man for libel. The letter writer said that the First Amendment surely protected a citizen's right to send an angry letter to Washington. The court said no, a nasty letter to the President or Congress, even if sent in exercise of the constitutional right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances...
...period when many newspapers feel that their readers don't love them, the increase in libel suits and costly verdicts may seem further evidence of reader (and juror) dissatisfaction. But the situation may not be all that...
...poll of readers found that about two out of three consider their local paper reliable. But perhaps the most telling reader criticism was a feeling that reporters are too intent on "getting a good story and don't worry much about hurting people." People feeling hurt is what makes libel suits...
...also been scheduled to appear on the station’s “Book TV” program to discuss her forthcoming book, “History on Trial: My Day in Court With David Irving.” It recounts the libel lawsuit Irving filed against her in a British court for labeling him a Holocaust denier in her 1993 book, “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.” He lost the lawsuit...
High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case, wrote in his decision that Irving had “persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence...is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism...