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Public officials, the court said, could win damages only if they showed a libelous statement had been made "with actual malice, that is, with knowledge that it was false, or reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
He speaks of 'the zeal and insouciance with which the mass media assails public officials".' The Sullivan case held that the First Amendment required public officials suing for libel to prove that the statements they complained of were made with "actual malice" -- that is, with knowledge that the statements were false or with reckless disregard as to whether they were false.
Brennan wrote that a public official (and this was later broadened to include public figures in general) cannot recover "damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice' — that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not".
Thus, American law does not allow an action (at any rate where media defendants are involved) unless the plaintiff-victim can prove that the allegation was made with "actual malice"—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.
710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964), that the plaintiff in such an action must prove that the defamatory publication 'was made with 'actual malice'that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.' 376 U.S., at 279280, 84 S.Ct., at 726.
As such, he clearly fell within the rule that 'prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with 'actual malice'that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.' Id., 376 U.S. at 279280, 84 S.Ct. at 726.
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