Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William C. Westmoreland, the former commander of U.S. ground forces in Vietnam, accused Wallace and CBS of reckless and malicious reporting in a 1982 documentary. "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception." The documentary charged that Westmoreland deliberately falsified enemy troop estimates to convince Washington that enemy forces were weaker than they actually were...
...even casual trial followers are aware that a public figure who sues a newspaper or magazine for libel must prove not only that the story is false but that it was published with reckless disregard for the truth. This test of "actual malice" was meant to safeguard the press, but in practice it has proved a complex standard that is open to wide interpretation by juries. In recent years, seven out of every ten libel cases lost by the media have been overturned on appeal. However, in an unexpected reversal last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reinstated...
...same kind of stories on which he built his own reputation: high- impact investigative stories of wrongdoing," wrote MacKinnon. "Regardless of whether one chooses to characterize this policy as conducive to . . . 'sophisticated muckraking,' it certainly is relevant to the inquiry of whether a newspaper's employees acted in reckless disregard of whether a statement is false...
...Nicaragua, pointed to a new form of containment, a kind of ex post facto containment: harassment of Soviet expansionism at the limits of empire. There is an echo here of the old 1950s right-wing idea of "rolling back" Communism. But with a difference. This is not the reckless--and toothless--call for reclaiming the core Soviet possessions in Eastern Europe, which the Soviets claim for self-defense and, more important, which they are prepared to use the most extreme means to retain. This is a challenge to the peripheral acquisitions of empire...
...President may be revolutionary, but he is not reckless. To ensure that he does not stray too far from current thinking, he appends a reference to international law: "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense and totally consistent with the OAS and U.N. charters...