Public figures:
a. must establish malice in order to recover damages for defamation.
b. can seek a retraction, but can never recover damages for defamation.
c. lose their defamation action rights if the remark or information is part of a story.
d. can never have an action in defamation.

b. can seek a retraction, but can never recover damages for defamation

Explanation:

A defamation is a clumpy oral or written communication about a false statement and that can unjustly harm the reputation and is usually consider to be a crime and some of the deface to claim. The case of the defamation are the statements that are made in the good faiths and in the reasonable beliefs are a true and fair commitment on matters of the public interest and involves no third party communication.

My opinion is that it doesn't