So in other words, when you said it wasn’t a threat to freedom of the press, now you’re backing off and saying it’s just the law and the press should suck it up. Got it.

How many newspapers can risk that kind of judgment these days? Even big ones like the Chicago Tribune would choke to death if they suddenly had to come up with that kind of cash. So what happens is they decide not to go with any kind of aggressive reporting that can hit them with $50 million from a random jury in…

Or for that matter, the implication is that if Hogan gets $115 million for a sex tape, a tape of Mitch McConnell feeling someone up gets a penalty of a tenth of that.

On the one hand, I hate to think that anyone can post a celeb’s video and use the claim that they’re a journalist to avoid any kind of legal action.