The Norton Court held that it recognized the fair report privilege, but not the neutral reportage privilege. n106 The
fair report privilege is narrower than the neutral reportage privilege because it protects a reporter from liability for
publishing a defamatory statement if the reporter relied upon a public official or a public document as the source. n107
"The newspaper in Norton was free to report the portion of the council member's rant that occurred during the meeting.
However, when the paper published comments made outside of the council chambers, it faced liability." n108 Precisely
at instances like these where the information directly bears upon a public official's ability to govern, the importance of
informing the public of the officials' conduct would outweigh concerns about publishing defamatory content