Libelous Remarks



Art. 362. Libelous remarks. — Libelous remarks or comments connected with the matter privileged under the provisions of Article 354, if made with malice, shall not exempt the author thereof nor the editor or managing editor of a newspaper from criminal liability.

Libelous remarks or comments on matters privileged, if made with malice in fact, do not exempt the author and editor.

Liability of newspaper reporter for distorting facts connected with official proceedings

• The reporter of a newspaper publication, in publishing what passes in a court of justice, must publish the whole case, and not merely state the conclusion which he himself draws from the evidence.

• The author or the editor of a publication who distorts, mutilates or discolors the official proceedings reported by him, or add comments thereon to cast aspersion on the character of the parties concerned, is guilty of libel, notwithstanding the fact that the defamatory matter is published in connection with a privileged matter.



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