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Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era / Patrick C. File.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- File, Patrick C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libel and slander--United States--History.
- Libel and slander.
- Trials (Libel)--United States--History.
- Trials (Libel).
- Journalism--United States--History.
- Journalism.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--History--1865-1921.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 138 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: File, Patrick C. Bad news travels fast.
- ISBN:
- 9781625343741
- 1625343744
- 9781625343734
- 1625343736
- OCLC:
- 1032351380
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