Section 308 — Criminal Code: Fair report of public meeting

No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel by reason only that he publishes in good faith, in a newspaper, a fair report of the proceedings of any public meeting if the meeting is lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and is open to the public; the report is fair and accurate; the publication of the matter complained of is for the public benefit;

and he does not refuse to publish in a conspicuous place in the newspaper a reasonable explanation or contradiction by the person defamed in respect of the defamatory matter.