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Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era / Patrick C. File.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (x, 138 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613766217
  • 9781613766200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF1266 .B336 2019
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Contents:
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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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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