Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspapers that carry the strip, about half a dozen, including the Los Angeles Times, canceled the Sinatra series, despite assurances that Universal's libel lawyers had reviewed the cartoons. A dozen other papers, among them Long Island's Newsday, refused to run the Dellacroce installment on the grounds that the caption failed to point out that Dellacroce had been acquitted of the 1974 killing. Editors at the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune blue- penciled mention of the Calise murder. The Daily News, for example, simply called Dellacroce "underboss of Gambino...
...Washington Post Executive Editor BEN BRADLEE at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.: "In its lay -- or nongovernmental -- form, press bashing is most apt to show up in the form of libel suits. The Philadelphia Inquirer has no less than 21 libel suits filed against it today. We have had a big one going with the former president of Mobil Oil. Four judges have considered it; two have ruled for him and two for us, but unfortunately for us, the last two were his. It is on appeal now, and our legal bills alone have already topped...
...handful of reporters in the play who show glimmers of decency are hounded out of the trade or nullified by their editors or derailed by their own greed ^ and ambition. In the climax of the plot, the forces of virtue, somewhat tarnished themselves, are gulled into printing a libel that undoes their chances of stopping an evil publisher. Like too many journalists, these dubious heroes simply believe what people tell them and thus are easily misled...
When Dean Rusk was Secretary of State during the Viet Nam years, he angered the press by asking a persistent reporter, "Whose side are you on?" In a deposition he made in General Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS (it was not quoted directly in court), Rusk was asked whether the Johnson Administration deliberately minimized the war's bad news and emphasized the good. His answer...
...think that television to some degree is responsible for the growth of libel actions for the reason that television coverage stirs the emotions more than print does. It a man sees himself called to account in print. It is somehow not as unsettling as that same calling to account on a television screen...