Word: slanderous
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Dishonesty & Slander. "In politics, the principle that 'anything goes,' simply because people are thought not to expect any high degree of honor in politics, is grossly wrong. We have to recover that sense of personal obligation on the part of the voter and that sense of public trust on the part of the elected official which give meaning to political life. Those who are selected for office by their fellow men are entrusted with grave responsibilities. They have been selected not for self-enrichment, but for conscientious public service. In their speech and in their actions they...
Current interest on the topic centers around the Executive order restricting the right of government agencies to issue news statements. Other issues which will be discussed are slander in newsprint; the influence of advertisers and political parties on papers' editorial policies; the decrease in the number of newspapers, which threatens freedom of the press; and the possibility of the federal government's subsidizing or even publishing a paper...
...city newsmen streamed to Lake Charles, La. when the editor and publisher of the American Press were indicted for slander for charging...
...think this country dropped the Bill of Rights along the way some place . . . Unless a man is to be given a fair trial in a courtroom, unless his accusers are prepared to supply concrete evidence against him, he ought not to be made the butt of irresponsible slander, particularly from the privileged sanctuary of the Senate of the U.S. . . . If a [man] makes slanderous charges against his countrymen, he ought to be made either to prove them or bear the consequences...
Then came the crusher. Last week the grand jury not only refused to indict Ham Reid but, in an astounding bit of legal beagling, it filed slander charges against three P.A.G. members and five American Pressmen, including Ken Dixon and Publisher Shearman. The accusation: they had "defamed" three of the local gamblers as well as Sheriff Reid, the district attorney, other officials...