Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charles' abandon and trying to rein him in. When Barkley published his autobiography last year -- Outrageous! -- he compared some of his teammates' skills unfavorably with those of his grandmother and then, turning on his ghostwriter, threatened to become the first person in history to sue himself for libel...
...celebrated libel suit goes to trial -- but will anyone...
...matter the official outcome, in most libel suits everyone loses. The aggrieved plaintiff seeking to restore his reputation winds up giving far wider, more enduring publicity to the very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
...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...