Fair Comment

Fair comment is a legal term for a common law defense in defamation cases (libel or slander).

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Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or comment:

    “While I believe that with a fair election in the South, our electoral vote would reach two hundred, and that we should have a large popular majority, I am yet anxious, as you are, that in the canvassing of results there should be no taint of dishonesty.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicise a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey ... then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.”
    —Al, Rev. Sharpton (b. 1954)