U.S. Supreme Court Overturns ‘Opinion Defense’ in Libel Cases

In response to “Is It Opinion or Is It Fact?” editorial, June 23:

This letter is from one who seldom reads Times’ editorials because of their liberal bias and slanted opinions. Your use of such inflammatory and one-sided words in this editorial as though they were true illustrates my point: “huge setback;” “astonishing recklessness;” “ignored the standard;” “chilling;” “chaos and contradiction.”

It would appear that your mean position, far from a noble cry of protection of free speech, is in reality the whine of a culprit who has with impunity defamed the innocent with words that “imply an assertion of objective fact.”

It is now time to be more careful, sensitive and fair.

LARRY L.J. THORP

Upland