TY - BOOK AU - File,Patrick C. TI - Bad news travels fast: the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era SN - 9781613766217 AV - KF1266 .B336 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Libel and slander KW - United States KW - History KW - Trials (Libel) KW - Journalism KW - Electronic Books N1 - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013; 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2172931&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -