Talk:Character assassination/Archive 1

True or false
About whether character assassination is defamation: defamation is not solely a legal concept, and it's pretty much only in the US that truth is an absolute defense -- against libel and slander, which is not quite the same as defamation. 'Insult with true statements' is a category of defamation in some countries. Furthermore, character assassination can be entirely false statements. So I think that referring to it as a type of defamation is perfectly reasonable. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * On second thought, I'm pretty sure we're in total agreement. Good edit. My bad. –Bdb484 (talk) 21:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Totalitarian or Democracy?
The article highlights the use of character assassination in a totalitarian regime. But is this so different from character assassination in a Western democracy? If you are being smeared in the media you can't just whip out your wallet and buy yourself a newspaper publishing company, a tv station and a couple of web sites. Elliott Spitzer, Dominique Strauss-Kahn or Steph Blatter are examples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.224.147.8 (talk) 08:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Very interesting article! But isn't it presented as if it only happenend in politics or in business? Doesn't this kind of attack primarily takes place in a private setting, with individual citizens attacking others, such as relatives? or when members of a private organization attack each other, as individuals (one on one) or as private groups targeting either individuals or other groups?173.237.241.217 (talk) 23:43, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

???
Hello,

Could this item not include "brainwashing".

145.129.136.48 (talk) 12:29, 18 November 2019 (UTC)