Wow, what is a reliable source? This could be the Achilles heal of the lying democrat activist media! Shouldn't the statement defaming a public figure be required to be true?At the Newseum in the Aspen Institute 2011 Washington Ideas Forum, Scalia said the landmark ruling meant you can libel public figures without liability so long as you are relying on some statement from a reliable source, whether its true or not
See, thats a point that Scalia was condemning the Sullivan decision about.Proper interpretation of the Bill of Rights says that neither you nor anyone else has the right commit libel. The bastardized interpretation of the Warren Court in Sullivan basically turns the journalism cartel into a priestly class.
The author of the link I provided was outraged that Scalia didnt think that journalists rightly are a privileged class.