I&#x27;m curious, is a TV station liable for content of Syndicated shows, or commercials or all the other content it did not produce but choose to show?<p>Are newspapers liable for the quotes they print? I thought not, and that is why they always so careful about saying &quot;it was reported&quot; or &quot;so said who and who&quot; to make clear any quotes were not coming from the paper and so they weren&#x27;t liable.<p>A search result is even less than a quote. Autosuggest, hmmmm.<p>Can&#x27;t google sue for defamation for this statement by Dr Janice Duffy “... I beat the bastards,” or this one &quot;... Google can’t come into our country, destroy reputations and get away with it.”<p>Both are defamatory and the first is patently false (maybe so much so it then doesn&#x27;t count as defamation) the second though is certainly debatable and plausibly harmful to Google.