2306 REVIEW DENIED The SLAPP statute protects descriptions of statements made during judicial proceedings and at depositions connected with those proceedings, regardless of public interest; the SLAPP statute protects media defendants; media statements that preserve the "gist and sting" of testimony given as part of a judicial proceeding are privileged, even though they vary somewhat from the testimony itself; a nationally-known political strategist is a public figure and must prove actual malice to make out a case for defamation.CitationSIPPLE v FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS (Spin Doctor) 71 CA4 226 [See: CCP 425.16; CivC 47; Briggs v Eden Council 19 C4 1106, T/AT 2/99; Lafayette Morehouse v Chronicle 37 CA4 855, T/AT 9/95; McClatchy v Superior Court 189 CA3 961; Kurata v LA News 4 CA2 224; NY Times v Sullivan 376 US 254; Gertz v Robert Welch 418 US 323; Reader's Digest v Superior Court 37 C3 244; Masson v New Yorker 501 US 496; Braun v Chronicle 52 CA4 1036, T/AT 3/97]
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