Word: libelproof
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...news in the U.S. For example, as a result of strict rules about "damage to reputations," there is scarcely a newspaper in Britain that would dare run the risk of exposing a British businessman who had made gifts to a government official. Even the laws of "qualified privilege" (i.e., libelproof material) are so tight that if a U.S. Senator called a British minister a rascal on the floor of the Senate, a British paper that published the news (as a U.S. newspaper could) would be subject to suit...
When Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy called Columnist Drew Pearson a Communist tool (TIME, Jan. 8), he thought he was safe enough. As usual, he made his attack from the libelproof U.S. Senate floor. But last week litigious Columnist Pearson thought he had found a way around McCarthy's immunity, slipped a libel suit against...
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