Title Bad news travels fast : the telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the Progressive Era / Patrick C. File.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 138 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Book collections on Project MUSE.
	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Note	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2013.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	News in the late nineteenth century : more and faster -- Libel in the nineteenth century : malice or mistakes? -- The Smith and Rutherford cases : the news as 'a wrong and perilous system' -- The Palmer cases : the first large-scale libel syndicate -- The Oakley cases : libel and celebrity -- Bad news and the bad tendency test : the limits of libel doctrine -- Retraction statutes : an alternate route to protection -- Conclusion.
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Subject	Libel and slander -- United States -- History.
	Libel and slander.
	United States.
	History.
	Trials (Libel) -- United States -- History.
	Trials (Libel)
	Journalism -- United States -- History.
	Journalism.
	United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
Chronological Term	1865-1921
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: File, Patrick C. Bad news travels fast. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2019 9781625343741 (DLC) 2018019214
ISBN	9781613766217 (electronic book)
	1613766203 (electronic book)
	9781613766200 (electronic book)
	1613766211 (electronic book)
	9781625343741 (paperback)
	9781625343734 (hardcover)