Word: slanderer
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...Slander is defamation by word of mouth, legally a rather minor offense. Libel, much more serious, has always been defined by the law books as defamation by printed word...
...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...
...editors and educators took the bait. Cried Josephus Daniels in the Raleigh News & Observer; "There was a time when a man uttering such an unsupported slander would have [had] his tongue cut out." Protested the Lawrence, Kans. superintendent of schools: "I just wish Mr. Green could have attended our junior-senior prom. . . ." The University of Wisconsin's dean of women coolly observed that "it is impossible for anyone to have the facts...
...Claiming slander by the N.A.M. against C.I.O. and A.F.L. leaders...
...Under our standards a restrained comment on a matter of public policy is not a slander. Therefore, I know that on second thought you will not attribute hostility to frankness...