The legal limits of journalistic demagogy. (In connection with the decision issued by the Supreme Court on 27 Feb. 2003)

Michał Zaremba

The author considers the admissibility of a court intruding upon the form of press material. The impulse for this article was a recent decision of the Supreme Court declaring that the use, by a journalist in his text, of rhetoric which imparted a tone of demagogy to the text, could be the basis for civil liability of the author for infringing the good name of the person described in the press material.

KEYWORDS

Form of press material, protection of personal rights, demagogy, press criticism