The law also treats opinion, however measured, just as it treats tabloid gossip until a defendant convinces a court it should be accepted as fair comment.
The essay — a gentle answer from a conscientious journalist — explains how "the war of language can confound a reporter's attempts to narrate — or a new president's attempts to mediate — this conflict in a way both sides can accept as fair". I urge you to read it.
Cricketers don't dream of walking, and that's accepted as fair game, but the equivalent of football (whatever it is) would be seen as unpalatable (and, probably, entirely the preserve of Johnny Foreigner).
In 1970, an election generally accepted as fair and open was held.
But if referendum results are to be accepted as legitimate, the contests have to be accepted as fair.
But most people tend to follow rules they accept as fair, even when they have the opportunity and a strong incentive to break them.
What happens next is less clear.At the last election, in May 1998, voting was generally accepted as fair, but the result was not.
While chambers' recruitment practices were generally accepted as fair, significant problems emerged over experiences of harassment and discrimination, and how women were able to deal with problems.
Even though many women of this generation were still steeply discriminated against in terms of pay and access to pensions, equalisation is accepted as fair.
The question then becomes whether this marked increase in volume changes a use which was generally accepted as "fair" into one which has now become "unfair". 4.
Drugs in sport will continue to be around for some time, particularly until athletes have greater ownership over what they accept as fair and what they won't accept.
