Mann was the attorney for the Town of Rye, a New York community. He filed a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that served the Rye area and against the writer of that newspaper’s Town Crier column. Mann based his case on statements that appeared in the column. The writer of the column referred to Mann as a “political hatchet man” and as “one of the biggest powers behind the throne in local government.” The writer also asserted that “Mann pulls the strings” and raised the question whether Mann was “leading the Town of Rye to destruction.” What arguments should the defendants make in an effort to avoid defamation liability? Should Mann win his case?