“This is not reporting, this is slander pure and simple..”
Slander is the deliberately spoken falsehood. Libel is the deliberately written falsehood.
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And libel of a public person occurs when that person is defamed by a wanton and willful disregard for the truth. Which means Brett Kavanaugh has a case against the Times and the Atlantic.
I stand corrected.
However then, all those that rushed to the closest microphone and repeated the lies are guilty of slander.