Word: libellous
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...quite ready to go to a system that says. "We'll trust the press as far as any public official is concerned." ... If I were to take a cut at it, I would be attempting to address the amount of damage that somebody can do in a libel suit and yet still leave it possible for someone to vindicate himself or herself when he feels or she feels that victimized by the press...
Crimson: Do you think there's a problem just for the everyday person or the public person who may not be so high, the mayor of a city who feels he's been libeled? There's a great cost to bringing libel suits. Westmoreland's spent some 2 million dollars to sue CBS. What can be done to give these people the chance to redress injury...
Simons: I don't think public officials, elected public official ought to hve the right to sue for libel...
Lewis: Can I just interrupt to chime in with an apt quotation on the point Howard was making. This is a wonderful libel opinion. Its an opinion of Judge Bork's in a case decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit last week. "In deciding a case like this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about...
Nesson: Except "jostled and bumped" sounds very benign. It's what happens when we walk out into the street. And the libel plaintiffs view is, "I didn't get jostled. I didn't get bumped. I got decked. I got malevolently knocked out. (laughter) And I want to prove...