Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by riazrizvi on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#25434039)

Isn't it common knowledge that Gawker was a media company that irreverently covered silicon valley until it was bankrupted through litigation? The law courts are the main way that journalism is attacked in non-autocratic countries. Strong freedom of the press laws are celebrated, because they are constantly under siege by powerful people, who once targeted, would rather not have them.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by nickff on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:36PM (#25434070)

Gawker is a bad example... Nick Denton was known for being happy to gossip and libel; he always said his victims loved the attention, and that if they hated it so much, they could always sue him. Eventually, some did.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by bigbubba on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:08PM (#25435288)

The very name of the publication says everything I ever needed to know about them. Gawk: to stare or gape stupidly. Their articles invariably lived up to the name. This was not an organization anybody should have been taking seriously.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by esyir on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:14PM (#25438206)

If gawker is your example of journalism here, then i I'm perfectly fine with seeing it burn.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by oh_sigh on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:00PM (#25434396)

Gawker was bankrupted because they really wanted to display Hulk Hogan's penis, filmed on a hidden camera in a private room, on their website.

edit: removed reference to violating a court order, even though they did before having it overturned.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by ceejayoz on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:30PM (#25434834)

That's entirely incorrect.

Gawker objected to that court order, and won (https://www.leagle.com/decision/inflco20140117151).

> The circuit court's order granting Mr. Bollea's motion for temporary injunction is reversed because it acts as an unconstitutional prior restraint under the First Amendment.

There's clear Supreme Court precedent from cases like New York Times Co. v. United States (the Pentagon Papers case) that prior restraint is unconstitutional.

They lost the overall case on other grounds.

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