Pierce v. Long

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• analyzing radio station's comments about judicial proceeding under Section 611 fair report privilege
• analyzing radio station’s comments about judicial proceeding under Section 611 fair report privilege
• distortion of court proceeding and inclusion of extraneous material in “documentary” constituted abuse
• “if one hurls defamatory epithets in a manner to strike one to whom they seem, because of fortuitous circumstances, peculiarly to fit, he is liable as much as if he had aimed his remarks precisely at that person”
• “the fault lay in breaking the egg of the extra-judicial ‘investigation’ and the egg of the judicial hearing into one omelet and seasoning it with comment and observations which made the parentage of either original egg impossible of ascertainment as to taste, color, shape or form”

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