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Page 1 of 11924 · PDF PAGE 11
…igorous proof or disproof, like any other matter of officially recorded public history. It is this obvious fact, instantly felt by every reader, that makes this lie so dastardly. Every reader instinctively assumes that neither care- lessness nor malice could print a downright lie in a matter which is so vital, and which can, from its very nature, be so conclusively ascertain- ed. Every reader assumes that no editor could 11
1924 · PDF PAGE 12
…truth immediately, by specifying the time and place of the alleged conviction and appealing to the official records of the courts. Every reader assumes, therefore, without hesitation, that such an allegation, deliber- ately published, by a well-known paper, as an indictment, must be true. 9. Now you, my Lord, as proprietor of the Sunday Express, can satisfy yourself, by a few minutes inquiry, that your editor is unable to specify the date or place of any such conviction. You can compel him to admit to you that he printed this, the most damagin…
1924 · PDF PAGE 5
…lisher 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 not prevent it from working, right from the start, almost as much mischief as if it were proven truth. It may reduce its victim, at a stroke, from affluence to poverty, or fro…