Editors and the Risk of Libel in Letters.

Pasternack, Steve

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ERIC Number: EJ286508

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Publication Date: 1983

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Editors and the Risk of Libel in Letters.

Pasternack, Steve

Journalism Quarterly, v60 n2 p311-15,328 Sum 1983

Concludes that most newspapers will reject letters to the editor that they consider to be libelous, but that many make efforts to rehabilitate those letters. (FL)

Descriptors: Legal Problems, Legal Responsibility, Letters (Correspondence), Media Research, Newspapers, Press Opinion

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Language: English

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