From v. Tallahassee Democrat, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pure opinion occurs “when the defendant makes a comment or states an opinion based on facts which are set forth in the article or which are otherwise known or available to the reader or listener as a member of the public”
• noting pure opinion based on facts which are set forth in article or which are otherwise known or available to reader or listener as member of public are protected by the Constitution and can not form the basis for a defamation action
• finding the statements published on the tennis column of a local newspaper concerning a local tennis professional to be non-defamatory because the newspaper’s audience would be expected to know both the tennis professional’s situation and his performance in the local community
• \Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).