2) What is the Libel Law & how was it revolutionized in 1964?
Libel(клевета) cases are heard by the jury which decides: whether a publication has printed libelous information about someone, how much the libeled individual has suffered, what kind of monetary damages he will have. Revolutionized Libel Law. The Sullivan decision of 1964: public officials no longer could sue successfully for libel unless reporters or editors were guilty of “actual malice(злой умысел)” when publishing false statements about them. Now they would have to prove that a journalist had knowingly printed false information while making little if any attempt to distinguish truth from lies.