Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's scandalmongers committing libel when they broadcast defamatory remarks from a script-or is it just slander?* Until last week this was a wide-open legal question. Then the New York Court of Appeals provided an answer by handing down a unanimous and-to radio-chilling decision...
...extending such programs as the Harvard Nieman fellowships). Since monopolistic tendencies involving newsprint, news services, and trade antagonism make increasingly difficult the founding of new newspapers, the government should enter the picture in a limited capacity. Anti-trust laws must be used to ensure real competition. The present libel laws must be made more effective in protecting persons injured by false statements. Going further, the government should employ mass communications media of its own where necessary to inform the people at home and in foreign countries of its policies and purposes...
...Amend the libel laws so that an injured party can get a retraction or a restatement of the facts, or an opportunity to reply...
...Parker-Cramer. The late Mr. Parker was my associate in the Parker-Cramer School. Second, the "ill-starred suit" against the Crimson was not "lost." The action was terminated by an out-of-court settlement wherein the Crimson admitted it was guilty of trespass, and Parker-Cramer discontinued the libel charge instituted against your paper. The court records do not include the separate agreement in which the Crimson agreed to pay the costs of the action. The basic reason why the case was not pressed to a judicial solution would be incredible to a crusading reporter...
...chairman of the U.S.-Canada defense board, Fiorello La-Guardia slipped into a furry hat and posed for cameramen (see cut). Then he hurled a $500,000 legal snowball at the New York World-Telegram. He disliked some recent editorials on his mayoralty, he said, and was suing for libel...