File, Patrick C.,

Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era / Patrick C. File. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 138 pages)

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.



9781613766217 9781613766200

2018031015


Libel and slander--History.--United States
Trials (Libel)--History.--United States
Journalism--History.--United States


Electronic Books.

KF1266 / .B336 2019