JMC 4483 Study Guide - Final Guide: Actual Malice, Celebrity Sex Tape, Nofap
13 Dec 2017
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Us supreme court overturned ruling, est libel as a matter of constitutional law. Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open. Est actual malice as level of fault that public officials must prove in libel suits. Actual malice - knew was fault and put out | didn"t look hard enough to see if it was false or not. Rulings since sullivan now require public figures also to prove same level of fault as public officials when in process of preparing a media message. If it is a factual statement capable of being proven false, it is not protected. It is protected only if it is a subjective statement not capable of being proven false. Study online at quizlet. com/_465dsi: 11. 04 | pc libel: how do we protect rep & keep speech free. Most common source of legal problems for media | falsely published.
