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The "blood libel", with Jews cast as vile and grotesque child-killers, certainly played its part in inciting violence.
A dancer writes a tell-all book and is then sued for libel, with the testimony in the case giving rise to flashbacks.
The Nazis themselves championed the blood libel, with Der Stürmer devoting article after article, complete with grisly illustrations, to the theme.
In other words, treat privacy like libel, with penalties and remedies available only after publication.Such an approach could be accompanied by a beefed-up version of the now-voluntary Press Complaints Commission, with statutory powers to protect privacy and punish newspapers that breach it, and tighter definitions of "the public interest" and of who counts as a "public figure" (see Bagehot).
July 15 , 1903Camberwell, Australia July 17 , 1995Palma, Spain Robert Close, (born July 15 , 1903 Camberwell, Victoria, Australia died July 17 , 1995 Palma de Mallorca, Spain) Australian novelist who, in a sensational 1946 trial before the Victoria Supreme Court, was charged under an 18th-century law with having committed an obscene libel with his novel Love Me Sailor (1945).
Mr. Sharon, whose reputation was built as a fierce and often controversial figure in all of Israel's wars -- from early commando raids that killed civilians to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon -- called the charges "a despicable political libel, and I will refute this libel with documents and facts".
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Morsi's vile anti-Semitic remarks are of a piece with the old blood libel: Jews with horns, Jews with tails, goats and devils defiling Christian women.
A number of titles were described as being "guilty of gross libels" with "gross inaccuracy" in reporting criticised as "bluntly outrageous".
A number of newspapers were "guilty of gross libels", with the Daily Star singled out for its headline claiming the McCanns had sold their child, in a piece headlined: "Maddie sold by hard up McCanns".
A number of newspapers were "guilty of gross libels", with the Daily Star singled out for its headline claiming the McCanns sold their child: "Maddie sold by hard up McCanns".
McAlpine's lawyer hope to reach a libel settlement with the BBC over the false allegations on Thursday.
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