Word: libelous
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...question. The Supreme Court has been reluctant to do that I think quite wrongly. Judge Bork, who is regarded as a Reaganite conservative, says in this opinion that it is the duty of a trial judge not to let any speech or writing go to a jury in a libel case if the speech or writing is in what he calls the "public, political arena." I agree with that...
Crimson: Lawyers are demanding to go farther and farther into the actual process of gathering news and I was curious whether you thought that that was another aspect to this libel business that could potentially damage newspapers...
Simons: Well can't the courts then find against the newspaper? Hasn't that been happening in libel...
Nesson: And when somebody sues your newspaper and says you got it wrong (laughter), let's have your source. You'd be happy to admit the libel judgement and pay a huge amount of money...
...really think that it comes from things that I would want to see the press change doing. The place where I see that some progress in possible is in a funny little corner of this, which is in the press' relationship with the judiciary. We're talking libel cases. They're court cases. They are cases that are supervised by judges, and so the judges become a peculiarly important audience. And if the judges have the impression of the press being arrogant, that will show up in the way libel cases are administered. I don't have any doubt that...