Can a single paragraph in a newspaper article be considered defamatory in a defamation action?

The record shows the only thing respondents did in this case was to emphasize the truth. Any conceivable implication that appellants were involved in their attorney's alleged criminality was necessarily drawn from the true facts stated in the entire newspaper article. Respondents' mere highlighting of one part of that article did not add to or detract from the substance of the newspaper article, which they disseminated in its entirety without any editing or added verbal commentary. If the newspaper article itself cannot be interpreted as creating a defamatory innuendo--and appellants do not contend that it can be--then it necessarily follows that the [72 Cal.App.4th 649] highlighting of a single paragraph out of that article could not result in such an innuendo. (Washer v. Bank of America, supra, 21 Cal.2d at pp. 828-829, 136 P.2d 297.)