A senator filed a libel suit against a journalist and lost the case because he could not prove that the journalist's statement was an instance of actual malice. Which affirmative defense helped the journalist?
a) Constitutional privilege
b) Qualified privilege
c) Truth
d) Statute of limitations
ANS: a
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