: That's irrelevant to the most important aspect of this, which is the chilling effect on a free press
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I'm not in favor of rules about which specific things news outlets are allowed to report on
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So reporting on the details of the tape is somehow different from showing a fuzzy nine-second clip?
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utterly gratuitous w new news value whatsoever. I can't fathom any reasonable journalist publishing a sex video, perhaps if POTUS.
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barely, perhaps if candidate for President or it one existed of Clinton/Monica but even then ??!
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So now all we are debating is the specific news judgement in this case, which isn't something a court should rule on
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why? For 250 years, the courts have been consistent that an editor doesn't make a topic newsworthy by fiat or entertainment value.
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