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Rebel Wilson defamation: celebrity news is not real journalism

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:22pm, first published September 15 2017 - 11:36am

It is, no doubt, a most disloyal thing for a journalist to say, but I exult in a $4.5 million defamation verdict to Rebel Wilson, a person of whom I don't think I had heard until she began proceedings against the publisher of Women's Day and Australian Women's Weekly online.

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