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