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The media industry should be held to a higher standard than the every day Jane or Joe. They should be held responsible for lible and slander regardless of whether any real damages were done to those reported on. If the story is false, they should be responsible for punitive damages to prevent this kind of crap. If they want to say 800 students were throwing rocks, they had better be able to prove that 800 students were throwing rocks.
If I were BYU, I would have sued the media because there is definitely the potential for direct damages (i.e., students might not want to attend an university full of rock throwers).
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