“Patrick C File, University of Nevada, Reno has published Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era with the University of Massachusetts Press. From the publisher: ‘At the turn of the twentieth century, American journalists transmitted news across the country by telegraph. But what happened when these stories weren’t true? In Bad News Travels Fast, Patrick C File examines a series of libel cases by a handful of plaintiffs …'” (more)
[Mitra Sharafi, Legal History Blog, 16 July]
First posted 2019-07-16 04:50:30
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