While the fair report privilege is important in promoting journalistic accounts of government proceedings, it leaves
a significant amount of valuable information unprotected. If the paper had only reported on the official's antics from the
meeting and omitted his comments outside of the chamber, readers would have gotten an incomplete picture of what
happened by missing the most outrageous portions of the rant. "Important information about public issues and officials'
fitness for office is just as likely to come from statements made in interviews, press conferences, campaign events or
myriad other settings as it is in a public meeting or official report." n110 Rather than limiting sources, a more effective
privilege is to protect a reporter who neutrally reports a statement from a public figure about another public figure