Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era
Title:
Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era
Author:
File, Patrick C., author.
ISBN:
9781625343741
9781625343734
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Physical Description:
x, 138 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013.
Contents:
News in the late nineteenth century : more and faster -- Libel in the nineteenth century : malice or mistakes? -- The Smith and Rutherford cases : the news as 'a wrong and perilous system' -- The Palmer cases : the first large-scale libel syndicate -- The Oakley cases : libel and celebrity -- Bad news and the bad tendency test : the limits of libel doctrine -- Retraction statutes : an alternate route to protection -- Conclusion.
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