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