Probably time to relax the laws on defamation a little bit, to prevent cases like these. The laws date from a time when access to media was hard, and just getting your thing published was an impossible amount of work. Now that we have social media, it's not clear that we need the law to "protect" us here. If someone writes a hit piece about you, can probably get more people to read your defense. That's new, and the laws haven't been updated to account for that.<p>(Unlike more pressing issues facing society, this one doesn't require spending money, or passing a Constitutional amendment, so it feels within reach!)