Butler v. Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.

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• finding it significant that \the privilege exists 'even though the publisher himself does not believe the defamatory words he reports to be true and even when he knows them to be false' \ (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 611 cmt. a)

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