Clarification Someone claimed that an editor here was making a libelous insinuation Libelous is not a term to be thrown around loosely First I didn t see anything that was factually untrue That is the first requirement for libel If something is true it is not libelous Second opinion is never libelous I just hope that people become more judicious about this Oh and finally libel against a public figure requires reckless indifference to the truth or knowledge that the statement was false I don t see anything here that suggests there was any libel