The Long Shelf Life of the New York Times Malice Standard

The reason to have the actual malice standard, of course, is that we as Americans have decided to give news outlets the benefit of the doubt. The UK system where they actually have very heavy libel laws if you want to call it that doesn't make their journalism more accurate. There's no particular evidence of that either. Regardless, this case has a long shelf life past the verdict. We'll see.