Let's Talk About...The Power of Words

Ok. You have probably heard the phrase, "The power of the written word." Somehow putting words on paper packs a punch.

The law clearly recognizes the impact of and the difference between the written word and the spoken word when they made "slander" (a spoken defamatory statement) and "libel" (a written defamatory statement) two distinct bad acts.

Libel has historically been treated as the more egr...