Word: libellant
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...toasters, breakfast cereals, cars and other products. But now the publication is undergoing public testing of its own. Financial losses are growing and employee morale is shrinking at the magazine's headquarters in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Making matters even worse, Consumer Reports has just lost its first libel case in more than 40 years of product testing...
Another heavy blow to Consumer Reports was the libel case. The verdict, which the organization is appealing, casts doubt on the magazine's credibility. In the ruling, a federal court in Boston found that the periodical had "published a false statement of material fact with the knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity...
...campaign for reelection in high gear, Gov. Edward J. King files multimillion dollar libel suits against every magazine and newspaper in the state. "Anything they print about me hurts me," King says adding that he has asked the State Supreme Court to enforce a gag order regarding his activities and statements on all Bay State journalists...
...serious side squirmed and printed a lame editorial claiming the right to publish a rumor that it found "utterly impossible to believe." Many readers assumed that lawyers had cobbled together this apologetic phrase, hoping to mitigate libel damages. Not so, says Publisher Donald Graham, 36. The responsibility was his. Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist...
When the Washington Post's "Ear" column passed along a rumor two weeks ago that the Reagans' guest quarters in Washington had been bugged just before last January's Inauguration, an outraged Jimmy Carter demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit. Last week the Post responded in print, with an editorial that may have set a new standard for journalistic sophistry. "There are a lot of 'we's' at the Washington Post," it began, "but the one you are about to hear from comes about as close as you can get to being...