Word: libellant
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...rain," while Journal news reporting has offered other explanations for the phenomenon. The news staff takes pride in giving thorough coverage to the problems of labor and the unemployed, and in challenging the questionable practices of corporations. After Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas sued the Washington Post for alleged libel for saying that he "set up" his son Peter in a shipping company, the Journal reviewed the circumstances in a story that was far more careful than the Post's but equally tough on Tavoulareas...
...musical, the stories are a way to make a fondly mocking peace with Old Will's ghost. As he insists to the actors, "The human side of a great poet . . . must not be traduced. The dead seem to have their own way of responding to the law of libel...
...press was under attack by the Nixon Administration, a group of journalists and laymen met to decide how best to counter the criticism. They set up a National News Council to investigate and judge specific complaints about news coverage. Objections arose: editors feared that unfavorable verdicts might provoke libel suits; broadcasters did not want any prejudging of matters that might come before the Federal Communications Commission. So anyone filing a complaint had to agree not to sue for libel or take his case to the FCC later. If the council censured a newspaper, that paper did not have to print...
...many scoundrels. It knows that villains are interesting. I had been cast as lago. My wife and children were distressed. My friends were appalled. I was infuriated, and in an earlier day, when the reputations of public persons were still protected by the law, might have sued for libel. But I could hardly run away from these false charges. Failing to confront them would be tantamount to saying that I was afraid of scrutiny because I did not think I could stand...
...aired a libel suit by Carol Burnett against the National Enquirer and a slander suit by California Physician Carl Galloway against CBS's 60 Minutes, but this is the first time it has aired a criminal case. Said CNN President Burt Reinhardt: "The network is devoted to allowing viewers to make their own judgments, rather than assessing news events for them." The intense attention to the gang-rape trial is a subject for debate, however, even within the staff. Says one writer: "Let's face it, they are running the trial because of its sexy nature...