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Ross, Susan Dente. Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context.(Book review)

Ross, Susan Dente. Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context. Mahwah, NJ, Alabama: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 2004. Pp. xiv, 619. ISBN: 0-8058-4698-0 (hbk.) $80.00.

Modern libel law rests upon a wobbly 1964 precedent: in New York Times v. Sullivan the Supreme Court, in effect, decreed it's permissible to get the facts wrong as long as your heart is pure. To succor the civil rights movement, the Court shredded the centuries old "to the marrow" proof for truth, thus transcending the particulars of an Alabama city official's grievance against a Yankee newspaper.

"Heed Their Rising Voices," a fund-raising ad for Martin Luther King, Jr., carried a handful of ...

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