Public Figure

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• Public Figure

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• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Po–San

• Voices of the Valley Make a New Year's Resolution for Any Public Figure.

Dave Hanson, Roanoke County There are so many public figures, I hardly know where to begin.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• December 27, 2010

• Edmund Burke As Stubborn Man and Lofty Public Figure

The reputations of historical figures change over time, and not just as new evidence or ideas emerge. Writers seize upon figures for competing purposes and inscribe their own agendas. Biographers then face the challenge of scraping away the accreted perspectives to present their subject from his own day's point of view. P. Lock's magisterial study of Edmund Burke meets that challenge exceptionally well. The entire biography reflects two decades of scholarship that sets Burke in context with a meticulous account of his life, and the final volume bears the title "Edmund Burke: Volume II, 1784-1797.

• The Washington Times
• March 28, 2007

• Public Figure

The concept of a public figure features prominently in modern FIRST AMENDMENT...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• KA-PU

• In Wake of Irwin's Death, Aacap Offers 'Talking with Children About the Death of a Public Figure'

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The death of a celebrity can provoke sadness in some children. Television star Steve Irwin's death has prompted the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to offer "Talking With Children About the Death of a Public Figure. The guidelines, authored by child and adolescent psychiatrist David Fassler, M.D., include ways for parents to explain a difficult but important subject. There are no right or wrong ways to talk with children about death. Among the AACAP's suggestions:

• U.S. Newswire
• September 07, 2006

• Tv Reporter Not Public Figure, High Court Rules

A local television reporter is not a public figure and she can sue her former station and a boss under a more lenient legal standard that previously was reserved for less well-known individuals, the Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday. The high court ruled that Holly Wayment, a former KTVX reporter, is not a public figure in a 26-page ruling involving Wayment's lawsuit against the station, Clear Channel Broadcasting and two male managers, Jon Fischer and Patrick Benedict.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 16, 2005

• Beyond the idea of an icon: President Obama is a media figure and public idol like no other President before him. This fact says much about newscasters, but it says even more about many Americans.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There has long been a certain objection to the divine command that we should worship God. It is simply: Why does God need you...

• The New American
• October 12, 2009

• Probing the Private Torment of a Legendary Public Figure

LINCOLNS MELANCHOLY How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness JOSHUA WOLF SHENK

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• November 23, 2005

• Is Reporter a Public Figure?

Are news reporters in Utah open to the same scrutiny and criticism they dish out to the public figures they cover? The answer is now up to the state Supreme Court.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• November 05, 2004

• Raising Shriver's Reputation; the Influential Public Figure has Had a Number of Successes

WASHINGTON - R. Sargent Shriver reclines cheerfully behind a well- papered table in his office at the Special Olympics, the program for mentally disabled athletes founded by wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver. He is 88 and quite the looker, with his pinstripe suit and dashing smile, his white hair brushed back in rakish fashion. Although diagnosed last year with Alzheimer's, he remains most engaged in conversation, with the easy laughter of a man used to events turning out for the best.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• May 02, 2004