[4] It has been published without interruption every week since its founding, and is distributed free by a network of carriers to all city residents.

"[6] Since its early days, many of the prominent editors and newspaper staff have been women: Mary Lou Williamson held the job of editor for the longest, over twenty-five years, and frequently shared the role with Dorothy Sucher throughout the 1960s as a result of both of them having babies.

[7] Harry Zubkoff was also a prominent editor, holding the position four times throughout the 1950s and 1960s and impressing other staffers with his "firebrand opinions.

"[7] In 1965, an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

The Supreme Court held "that as a matter of constitutional law, the word 'blackmail' in these circumstances was not slander when spoken, and not libel when reported in the Greenbelt News Review.