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Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era
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- Creator
- Patrick C. File
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
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- x, 138 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1625343736, 1625343744, 9781625343734, 1613766203, 1613766211, 9781613766217, 9781625343741, 9781613766200
- OCLC
- on1043159950, on1032351380
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references 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