As Gawker Learned, Media Corporations Aren't Above the Law

Jonah Goldberg

 

If you want proof of the journalism profession's staggeringly high self-regard, you could do worse than to study the kerfuffle over the not-quite-demise of Gawker.......... It went -- and still goes -- by the motto "Today's gossip is tomorrow's news."......Maybe they took these beats to the next level (or to a lower one), but this wasn't exactly reinventing the wheel...

 

Many media critics......... were enraged by the revelation that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel helped bankroll Hogan's lawsuit.......Gilles Wullus of the group Reporters Without Borders told the BBC that the Gawker case poses a dire threat to press freedom. "Journalism ethics should be taken care of by journalists themselves," he said. "In case they do not, we think that nobody else can do it in their place, neither states nor governments; especially not wealthy individuals."
What nonsense........Imagine the outrage if I said, "Petroleum-industry ethics should be taken care of by petroleum industry executives themselves.... To Read More....