I know that sounds logical ... but it doesn't work in practice and that's why the law doesn't work like that. We don't want a situation in which newspapers and

I know that sounds logical ... but it doesn't work in practice and that's why the law doesn't work like that. We don't want a situation in which newspapers and other powerful organisations can avoid being sued for libel simply by prefixing every article with "$RANDOM_PERSON says". If libel law were just going to be a booby trap for ordinary people who don't have legal advisors like newspapers do then it would be better not to have any libel law.