Like any boxing promoter, the press hypes every election,
exaggerating differences between the parties and hyping each candidate as a legitimate contender, Matt Taibbi wrote in an article on the Republican convention for Rolling Stone: «Otherwise, why watch?»
This blanket exclusion
exaggerates the
difference between references and other acts of publication, and treats all references, from footnotes to hyperlinks, alike, thereby disregarding the fact that references vary greatly in how they make defamatory information available to third
parties and, consequently, in the harm they can cause to people's reputations.