In our first semester here, we learnt about libel, slander, defamation etc and i thought i had got to grips with it with the help of the Mc Nae's law book. When a reporter is writing a piece on a celebrity or just any story there are certain areas that they have to be extremely careful....
However, it seems to me that with sports writers, the same rules don't apply, some of the transfer stories that appear in The Sun and The News Of The World are simply moronic and don't have an ounce of truth in them, yet they get printed and nothing comes of it?
Please someone explain to me why?
untruth is not the same as libel and it is not illegal to tell a harmless untruth or fiction.
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