Hulk Hogan's Smackdown Hurts Press Freedom

Townhall.com ^ | August 24, 2016 | Jacob Sullum

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Hulk Hogan's Smackdown Hurts Press Freedom

One-sided liberalism rampant in news rooms hurts press freedom a lot more than Nick Denton paying the price for defaming people and intruding on privacy does.

[TTFlyer]

As long as we understand it is “freedom to spread lies, propaganda, and other forms of bulls***.

[Red Badger]

BS........................

[major-pelham]

The shame here is it was Gawker and not a big media outfit. These people claim the constitution protects them while undermining everyone else’s rights - constantly 24/7.

[eyeamok]

I am on Mr Theil’s side on this, and will tell him personally next time I see him.

Too Bad GM and FORD didn’t do the Same damn thing to NBC and ABC for their FRAUDULENT REPORTING on Exploding Vehicles.

[MNDude]

Screw the media. Hulk Hogan is a real American who fights for the right of every man!

[MinuteGal]

I'm with Hulk on this one...and the jury of the people agreed.

Scr*w the liberal media which believes IT is the SOLE judge and jury of all that's moral or immoral, private or public...and whose amoral journalistic morons leap over the red line of restraint, decency and class at every opportunity.

Leni

[UB355]

Did not NBC get nailed for it’s fraudulent coverage of the Atlanta Olympic bomb incident?

[namvolunteer]

I like “truth is a defense.
I hate just about everything coming from Silicon Valley.

[Kaslin]

You got it

[trisham]

Agreed.

[txrefugee]

So the sleaze bags such as Gawker feel threatened. Good.

[canuck_conservative]

So much screaming from Big Media over a lawsuit, yet when Hillary actually threatens to shut down a legitimate news organization (Breitbart) - just because they dare to tell the truth about her - we get crickets.

Misplaced Media priorities 2016

[Calusa]

1. Same sex is the only club where the highest penalty is being declared a member.
2.Sometimes acts have recognizable consequences.
3.Lay down with canines...se #2.

[GOP Poet]

absolutely agree!!

[the_Watchman]

Thiel's amorphous, free-floating right to privacy provides another excuse to exact revenge

I suspect that this writer, or their "news" organization, would not employ that same terminology to the "right to privacy" oddly invoked on behalf of aborting the unborn!

[ozzymandus]

Depends on your definition of “freedom”.

[eyeamok]

Yes, but not nearly hard enough, they should have been PUT OUT OF BUSINESS ENTIRELY

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Press freedom? They have lost their right to cry about it from abuse.