Word: libellant
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...duty of press is to inform the public in an enlightened way, and question authority, but press shirks it because of the increased number of libel suits against it and the publicity and the money they would cost," he said...
...will any of them become libel lawyers...
While his government debates possible new press restraints inspired by the frenzied coverage of royals, John Major is seeking redress the old-fashioned way. The British Prime Minister announced plans to initiate libel suits against two magazines for printing allegations that he had conducted an extramarital affair with a fashionable London caterer, Clare Latimer. The long-whispered rumor was printed last month in the satirical monthly Scallywag, and repeated, albeit skeptically, by the left-wing weekly New Statesman and Society. Latimer, 41, promised similar legal action...
...government has vast legal powers to stifle dissent: an Internal Security Act that allows detention without trial, sharp restrictions on any statements that might stir racial or religious tension, and tough libel and slander laws. These have cowed most political opposition. "There is an undercurrent of fear," says a young man who left to live overseas. But Information Minister George Yeo does not apologize for "a political process that forces people to speak responsibly...
...written whole books in Caribbean patois that were influenced by the principles of classical Japanese art? How many other New Yorker writers have taken part-Cheyenne mercenaries for their alter egos? And which other scion of America's Eastern ruling class has devoted 628 pages and seven years of libel suits to defending the name of a young Native American charged with murder? While others pursue careers, Matthiessen has forged a path, and often it seems a high, chill path through what he calls "some night country on the dark side of the earth that all of us have...