California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Khawar v. Globe Internat., Inc., 46 Cal.App.4th 11, 54 Cal.Rptr.2d 92 (Cal. App. 1996):
11 The need for constitutional protection is much less where more considered editorial judgments are possible than when items are reports of "hot news"--items of possible immediate public concern or interest. (Briscoe v. Readers Digest Assn., Inc., supra, 4 Cal.3d 529, 535, 93 Cal.Rptr. 866, 483 P.2d 34.)
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