Everything Old Is New Again, Part MDCCCXI: The "Wire Service Defense" Before Wire Services

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American libel law has long recognized the "wire service defense"; to quote Layne v. Tribune Co. (Fla. 1933),
The mere reiteration in a daily newspaper, of an actually false, but apparently authentic news dispatch, received by a newspaper publisher from a generally recognized reliable…

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