From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 18:50:50 MDT
> "Smigrodzki, Rafal" wrote:
>
> David Lubkin [mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com] wrote:
>
> If you read what I posted, the alternative is to hold the press
> responsible
> civilly and criminally for what they write or how they pursue a story
> -- to
> the exact degree that you or I would be held responsible for our
> actions.
>
> ### The existing laws against slander already cover willful
> misrepresentation.
No, the existing laws don't (at least not here in the US). Existing laws
have a three part standard, a) that the information is actually false,
b) that it was intentionally falsified, and c) that the intention was
malicious. The third standard is impossible to prove in a court of law
unless you have a smoking gun memo by the slanderer expressing such
malice.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:13:24 MST