322. Newspaper proprietor's general authority to manage, when negligence
A general authority given to the person who actually inserts and publishes defamatory matter to manage, as editor or otherwise, the newspaper, and to insert and publish in the newspaper what he or she in his or her discretion thinks fit, shall not be negligence unless it is proved that the proprietor when originally giving such authority had meant that it should extend to the insertion and publication of defamatory matter, or had meant to continue such general authority knowing that it had been exercised by inserting and publishing defamatory matter in any number or part of the newspaper.