Reference no: EM133465109

1. In the cases of AP v. Walker (involving a story that reported Gen. Walker was present at a White supremacist protest at Univ. of Mississippi) and Curtis v. Butts (involving a story on match fixing in college football) the court established that standard for determining if there was 'reckless disregard of truth' in reporting of a news story. The standard expects the jury to look into...

A. if the reporter had time to investigate the story in depth.

B. were the facts of the story farfetched and improbable

C. whether the source(s) in the story were reliable and trustworthy

D. All of the above

2. Explain with examples how does Time-Place-Manner regulation/prior restarin of speech and expression work (we covered this in the context of prior restraint related to protest and First Amendment. You may use any example of protest or the the recent pro-life/anti-abortion protest that was was organized on the plaza in the last week of April.

3. Government officials can be sued for libel and defamation for things they say while discharging their official duties.

True

False