I'm sure he'll be fine, too, but his audience, moreso than the sports and entertainment names mentioned by someone else, are more also more likely to care about such things, to stereotype them as largely urban progressive sophisticates.

What is it with philosophy professors and inappropriate/criminal actions?

Correct. I don't believe there's any pending criminal case nor the hint of one. The above comment throws a lot of stuff at the wall without saying much.

I just went onto the federal court system looking for the suit, but the full text was not available to read. I had hoped it would be, so that I could see the language used about how the online comment led to defamation. It seems a fair number of people are taking from this piece that Oberst is suing because someone…

The comments were covered in the mainstream media. I'm not sure who picked up and promoted the story first, but it's not just a random internet comment like this one that fueled the story or the alleged defamation.

A random internet comment covered in the press.

Well, you run into two problems, in that so few cases are reported or followed up on that many civil claims could never proceed and that it's very unlikely a civil court judge, were there a criminal proceeding, would touch a case until the matter was resolved.

I'm only one guy, so I can only speak for me, but if I was falsely accused of rape, I'd be suing from here to Tacoma and back. I understand the big picture of not silencing victims of real assaults, but if it was my career and livelihood on the line I'd be salting the earth in my wake.

The claim, if I read ABC's article correctly, is that there was media attention based on three posts she made.

considering the position of the show at this juncture

Burke was also a contestant, which I may have missed in your article, not just Andrews. A more successful one, perhaps.

Well put.

My impression is that it all comes from Vince, or his people. For the better part of a decade, he was fixated on oversized wrestlers, because he'd had success with Hogan. Then AE happened and now that's the Best Ever and his groupthink plotters are stuck on that as the best idea ever. The booking is always reactive.

Well said. I caught some of the daytime stuff recently and was surprised, because I'd heard such negativity about them. They weren't perfect, but they knew the sport, they knew the people, and they entertained me. Johnny egging Tara on to join him in becoming an ice dancing team, for whatever country would have them,…

I wanted nothing more than to make that climb.

Agreed.

Very similar to my thoughts.

This is going to end up being a law school class example. A text asking to destroy evidence? Great plan, Richie. They'll never figure it out.

Locally (and other places in ny) I've heard they won't prosecute for under $50-100. It's not worth their staff time or something, I was told.

Law school will beat that out of you.