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Page 1 of 11924 · PDF PAGE 6
…ty be remedied. Your editors lie has wrought the havoc, and more. In France, my Lord, as you are doubtless aware, any man attacked in a newspaper has the legal right to reply in its columns, and his reply must be printed in the same type and in the same place as the original attack. This law is admirably just and wise. Its effect has been to put a complete stop, in France, to this plague of anonymous defamation, whether used as the instrument of journalistic blackmail, or simply as a form of profitable sensationalism. The present case shows ho…
1924 · PDF PAGE 5
…t robs its victim, in advance, of any of the normal means of redress. The man of letters is peculiarly ill-protected against sensational newspaper calumny. Every editor and publisher must reckon, nowadays almost exclusively, not with the real truth about an author, nor with the balanced judgment of the educated reader or man of the world, but with the prejudices and passions of the masses. Unless therefore a man of letters is wealthy enough to call his traducer to instant account in court of law, the absolute falsity of a newspaper calumny will…
1924 · PDF PAGE 3
…ll-known man of letters of being a proved felon. Taken together, they show that anonymous scoundrels, backed by the resources of a great newspaper organisation, canin fact, as distinct from legal fictionfreely direct, against any man or woman who happens to be socially ill-protected, an unscrupulously untrue and in- decent campaign, which, judged by its effects, may be morally indistinguishable from murder. 3. This state of affairs constitutes a menace of unprecedented gravity against the life and work of every individual citizen, and against…
1924 · PDF PAGE 9
…begin. Thus I obtained first- hand experience of the vile mischief that can be done to innocent and defenceless persons by such abuse of newspaper power as your editor has been guilty of. I decided in the end, to put aside my own scientific work in order to 9