Character assassination
Character assassination denotes:
- Making defamatory claims about a person when they are known to be untrue, see Defamation
- a defamatory factual assertion, listed in the criminal code, see defamation
- the deliberate undermining of the trust placed in a person or thing, see discrediting
- a variety of grass conquering, see Grasobern # Murder (character assassination)
Character assassination is the title of the following films and books:
- Character Assassination (1963) , American drama directed by Boris Sagal
- Character Assassination - Beyond Moral (2000), American-British-German political thriller directed by Rod Lurie
- Rufmord (2018) , German film drama by Viviane Andereggen
- Dennstein & Schwarz - Rufmord , Austrian TV film by Michael Rowitz (2020)
See also:
- Character assassination and media victims , non-fiction book by Christian Schertz and Thomas Schuler from 2007
