context: Thus, we agree with the trial court that, when considering the article as a whole, it could not reasonably be interpreted as stating false statements with a defamatory meaning of and concerning Boone.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.parenthetical: stating the trial court must read the statements at issue in the context of the entire article to determine whether a reader would interpret them as defamatory and finding a police officer plaintiff had failed to establish a newspaper article regarding police brutality and misconduct was personally defamatory
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Early v. Toledo Blade, 130 Ohio App.3d 302, 720 N.E.2d 107 (1998) (stating the trial court must read the statements at issue in the context of the entire article to determine whether a reader would interpret them as defamatory and finding a police officer plaintiff had failed to establish a newspaper article regarding police brutality and misconduct was personally defamatory); cf. Sweeney v. Sengstacke Enters., Inc., 180 Ill.App.3d 1044, 129 Ill.Dec. 773, 536 N.E.2d 823, 826 (1989) (holding newspaper’s article reporting that police officer had stated he and others planned to kill the city mayor was not capable of an innocent construction so as to be nonactionable, whether read alone or in the context of the entire article, the court rejecting the defendants’ assertion that the remainder of the article gave it a different, innocent meaning, and finding “[t]he entire focus of the article is the threat by a police officer on the life of the mayor” and noting the headline announced “policeman threatened mayor”).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.parenthetical: holding newspaper's article reporting that police officer had stated he and others planned to kill the city mayor was not capable of an innocent construction so as to be nonactionable, whether read alone or in the context of the entire article, the court rejecting the defendants' assertion that the remainder of the article gave it a different, innocent meaning, and finding "[t]he entire focus of the article is the threat by a police officer on the life of the mayor" and noting the headline announced "policeman threatened mayor"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Early v. Toledo Blade, 130 Ohio App.3d 302, 720 N.E.2d 107 (1998) (stating the trial court must read the statements at issue in the context of the entire article to determine whether a reader would interpret them as defamatory and finding a police officer plaintiff had failed to establish a newspaper article regarding police brutality and misconduct was personally defamatory); cf. Sweeney v. Sengstacke Enters., Inc., 180 Ill.App.3d 1044, 129 Ill.Dec. 773, 536 N.E.2d 823, 826 (1989) (holding newspaper’s article reporting that police officer had stated he and others planned to kill the city mayor was not capable of an innocent construction so as to be nonactionable, whether read alone or in the context of the entire article, the court rejecting the defendants’ assertion that the remainder of the article gave it a different, innocent meaning, and finding “[t]he entire focus of the article is the threat by a police officer on the life of the mayor” and noting the headline announced “policeman threatened mayor”).