Week 10: Media Ethics

The story of professor Weiler is one about a case of international libel gone bad.
It goes like this: a professor makes a statement (which some find to be inaccurate) on a website. He makes his statement by means of an Amazon book review to be more precise (what happened to free speech right?) Anyway, from what I gather, free speech laws are non-existent in France, but libel laws are more stringent. Which is the opposite of what happens in America (where the NYU professor is from)

So, I guess this story has been going on for awhile (since 2008) but he is just now being prosecuted. I dont get it, I dont ever want to study media law.