"I'm not trying to be obstreperous, but libel is a crime, right? So aren't you publicly alleging that the Daily Record violated the law? Honestly, I'm asking out of curiosity. I don't know how the law works in these situations. Presumably, if a newspaper published an article with the headline that, say, "George Conger embezzles funds from Patheos" and it turned out not to be true, wouldn't the paper be exposing itself to criminal liability (for libelling you), even if they claimed it were merely an opinion and not malicious in intent?" - Nathan Rein