Word: slander
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...print those responses. “What came back to us was an article which the information presented in it could not be substantiated whatsoever,” Kratsios said. “There were no sources, there were endless claims, which could have been seen as slander.”But Giles wrote that protesters ought to have been given the same space as Coke, regardless of editorial concerns of credibility. “In an issue of this kind, the magazine is not in a position to verify the accuracy of a statement from Coke or a statement...
...however, a new and unsettling brand of reactionary feminism finds itself grasping at scientific straws, overcome by its own political agenda. Armed with its stigmatizing accusations of “bias” and “sexist,” many trigger-happy feminists are resorting to McCarthyist slander to suppress scientific discourse in the academic community...
Single sex schools have always made me nervous and I’m historically not a fan of female-only anything. Women slap, we slander, we’re backstabbing gossips—one episode of “The Bachelor” and you’d have to agree. But this penchant for petty drama isn’t a new phenomenon: from Bible stories to the Bennett family, women have battled over bloodlines and boyfriends, wardrobes and wedding dates. Ann Jones, the criminal profiler, once wrote, “The story of women who kill...
...keep an eye on postings and to delete those that might anger Beijing. "You have to know where the pressure lines are," says a monitor at Xici Hutong, a site where Chinese journalists share ideas. He says he removes pornography, which is illegal in China, as well as personal slander and "political things." One of China's two biggest portals, Sohu.com, routinely talks with government regulators about what topics to add to the forbidden list. "China is undergoing a huge experiment in its transition to a free society," explains Charles Zhang, Sohu's CEO. "We need to be responsible...
...revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign will be ugly. In American politics, the parties seem to think that no matter how preposterous and grossly fabricated a charge is, it pays to slander. The Bush Administration has set a tone that works for it. You can count on the Republicans to do whatever it takes to win. Laurent de Wilde Paris...