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...surprisingly, ESPN is enraged. "Deadspin's self-admitted rumor-mongering is despicable behavior by any standard and shows callous disregard for its impact on people's lives," the network said in a statement. "It is not worthy of a response...
...libel rules established under the 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Supreme Court case essentially apply to today's digital media. "There aren't enough cases yet for anybody to tell whether there are nuances or differences to be drawn from how courts actually apply the Sullivan standard to online speech," says Sandra Baron, executive director for the Media Law Resource Center. Basically, a public figure can win a defamation claim if he proves that an individual person or media outlet published something about him with so-called actual malice - knowing it was false or with reckless disregard...
...handy form of address, Ms. found a foothold in the 1952 guidelines of the National Office Management Association: they suggested using it to avoid any confusion over a woman's marital state. Twenty years later, when Ms. magazine was born, the editors explained, "Ms. is being adopted as a standard form of address by women who want to be recognized as individuals, rather than being identified by their relationship with a man." That same year, the U.S. Government Printing Office approved using Ms. in official government documents. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...range officer for the slaughter of the televisions. "We ain't right wing, we ain't left wing. We're trying to get the folks to see the problem ain't left versus right, it's up versus down." He uses a tool analogy. "A Republican is a standard screw," said Chute. "A Democrat is a Philips screws. So whichever way you vote you get the screw." (See a review of the movie version of The Beans of Egypt, Maine...
...Late Friday evening, with a stroke of his pen, President Barack Obama declared H1N1 a national emergency. The statement said that Obama does "hereby find and proclaim that, given the rapid increase in illness across the Nation may overburden health care resources and that the temporary waiver of certain standard Federal requirements may be warranted in order to enable U.S. health care facilities to implement emergency operations plans, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the United States constitutes a national emergency...