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During his 1962 re-election campaign, Washington Democratic State Representative John Goldmark and his ex-Communist wife Sally were loudly labeled subversives by the weekly Tonasket Tribune and some local John Birchers. When Goldmark lost, he and his wife slapped a $225,000 libel suit on five of their critics. Last winter the trial jury denied recovery to Sally, but awarded $40,000 to Goldmark on the grounds that he was beaten by criticism that overreached the limits of fair comment (TIME...
...simply did not report the meeting at all. The memorandums he submitted of later meetings, maintains Boyd, were nothing but "gross misrepresentations." Hamilton's indication that the British favored alliance he calls "deliberate distortion," and his notation discrediting the performance of U.S. Minister to London Gouverneur Morris was "libel...
This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
Monday, December 7 SLATTERY'S PEOPLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A reporter's right to keep secret his sources is examined when state legislators threaten criminal libel proceedings...
Last week the Supreme Court reversed that conviction, -thereby extending to criminal libel the same rule it laid down for civil libel in last year's Alabama libel judgment against the New York Times: public officials cannot collect for public criticism unless a statement is "made with actual malice," meaning full knowledge that it was false. Though concurring, Justice Hugo Black argued, as he has before, that "There is absolutely no place in this country for the old, discredited English Star Chamber law of seditious libel...