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Bad News Travels Fast - The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
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Bad News Travels Fast - The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era (Paperback)
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At the turn of the twentieth century, American journalists
transmitted news across the country by telegraph. But what happened
when these stories weren't true? In Bad News Travels Fast, Patrick
C. File examines a series of libel cases by a handful of plaintiffs
- including socialites, businessmen, and Annie Oakley - who sued
newspapers across the country for republishing false newswire
reports. Through these cases, File demonstrates how law and
technology intertwined to influence debates about reputation,
privacy, and the acceptable limits of journalism. This largely
forgotten era in the development of American libel law provides
crucial historical context for contemporary debates about the news
media, public discourse, and the role of a free press. File argues
that the legal thinking surrounding these cases laid the groundwork
for the more friendly libel standards the press now enjoys and
helped to establish today's regulations of press freedom amid the
promise and peril of high-speed communication technology.
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