The media calls lies “reported” and repeated, as well as hateful blog entries as “coverage.” Palin needs to discount all the media and blogs as illegitimate sources....calling into question their veracity (and the credentials of each writer/reporter) at every turn.
Actually, I think she first needs to aggressively go after the State Run Media organizations who are reporting on these “bloggers” and using them as sources. I don’t believe that reporting “gossip” as legitimate news and saying “we didn’t start it” is a plausible legal defense. If the main news organizations are hit hard for this type of “reporting”, their blogger sources will dry up.
The threshold for liable and slander are much lower for a private citizen than they are for a public figure.