2387 Highlighting a paragraph in a newspaper article does not alter its essential truth, so if the article was not false and defamatory before highlighting, the highlighting did not make it so.
SMITH v MALDONADO (Highlighted Paragraph) 72 CA4 637 [See: Campanelli v Regents 44 CA4 572, T/AT 5/96; Schmidt v Foundation 35 CA4 1702; Ellenberger v Espinosa 30 CA4 943, T/AT 1/95; Philadelphia Newspapers v Hepps 475 US 767]
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