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Concise Summary of the Law of Libel As It Affects the Press William Graham Henderson No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 15 - A. libel is a malicious defamation, expressed either by writing, printing, or by signs or pictures, or the like, tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation, or publish the natural or alleged defects of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
Page 104 - The critic never takes advantage of the occasion to gratify private malice, or to attain any other object beyond the fair discussion of matters of public interest, and the judicious guidance of the public taste.
Page 105 - ... a critic must confine himself to criticism, and not make it the veil for personal censure, nor allow himself to run into reckless and unfair attacks merely for the love of exercising his power of denunciation.
Page 106 - The single purpose of the rule permitting fair and honest criticism is that it promotes the public good, enables people to discern right from wrong, encourages merit, and firmly condemns and exposes the charlatan and the cheat, and hence is based upon public policy.
Page 36 - The last section does not apply to a libel, contained in the heading of the report ; or in any other matter, added by any person concerned in the publication ; or in the report of any thing said or done, at the time and place of the public and official proceedings, which was not a part thereof.
Page 48 - Such comments or criticism are not libelous, however severe in their terms, unless they are written maliciously. Thus it has been held that books, prints, pictures and statuary publicly exhibited, and the architecture of public buildings, and actors and exhibitors are all the legitimate subjects of newspapers...
Page 103 - It does not follow a public man into his private life, or pry into his domestic concerns. " 2. Criticism never attacks the individual, but only his work. Such work may be either the policy of a government, the action of a member of Parliament, a public entertainment, a book published, or a picture exhibited. In every case the attack is on a man's acts, or on some thing, and not upon the man himself. A true critic never indulges in personalities, but confines himself to the merits of the subject-matter.
Page 30 - ... act under the sense of public responsibility, and that every citizen should be able to satisfy himself with his own eyes as to the mode in which public duty is performed.
Page 33 - In doing so it may state facts, draw its own inferences and give its own views upon the facts. It may err in its deductions, and if they are false they are not actionable unless special damages can be shown.
Page 118 - Any person who willfully states, delivers or transmits by any means whatever to any manager, editor, publisher, reporter or other employee of a publisher of any newspaper, magazine, publication, periodical or serial any statement concerning any person or corporation which, if published therein, would be a libel, is guilty of a misdemeanor.