A newspaper has the right to refuse an advertisement, said Mr Justice Singleton in awarding damages to newspaper managers in a libel action at Leeds Assizes. “It would be a deplorable thing if the newspapers accepted every advertisement,” he said. “They must, in the interests of their own good name and standing, exercise some care. If a newspaper proprietor has reason to doubt an advertiser’s bona tides, surely it is his right to say that he would rather not have his advertisements and refuse.to accept them. That is what the proprietors of these particular newspapers did. and I think they were right."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 2
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