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High life

ANOTHER media failure. How does Tina Brown get away with it?

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

Gstaad

Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in America? To win a libel case over there one has to prove malice aforethought, and I don’t know many journalists who would admit it and go down the Swanee. Take the case that has been hogging the headlines lately, that of the 2022 World Cup and its Qatar venue.

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