[Avodah] Exempt from Loshon Hara

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

Cantor Wolberg asked:
> Is a newspaper exempt from loshon hara? ... if a prominent
> (or even average) Jewish person were charged with having
> been involved in an adulterous relationship (whether it
> was true or not) and it was put in the newspaper, is the
> newspaper guilty of loshon hara?

It is so obvious to me that there is NO exemption here, that I hesitate to say so. Instead, I must ask: What is the basis of your question? Why do you suspect that there might be an exemption here? Lashon Hara exists not only through the spoken word, but through any communication whatsoever, even by a simple moving of one's eyes, if it can be interpreted as being a derogatory comment.

Surely, you must have some reason to think that newspapers might be different, else you would not be asking. What might that reason be?

Akiva Miller
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