FIGURE 6

Comparison of liability standards. The investigation region for strict liability (the dashed line) is a subset of the region under negligence where stories are investigated and published if true. Under negligence, p _n-lb and p _n are an upper bound to the region where stories are investigated and published if true, and p _n' is the corresponding lower bound. The upper and lower boundaries under the strict liability standard are p _s" and p _s', respectively. C' and C _s" are always strictly less than C _n", but C _s" may be greater, or less than, C'.