...as in, an attempt to censor a liberal media outlet.
Mother Jones posted this article (http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit), explaining a lawsuit that they were defending from a Romney mega-donor who didn't like how they described him.
Now, I know a lot of people here aren't going to be very sympathetic to MoJo on principle. But if we can set that aside for a moment, isn't it a little bit chilling that this was even attempted? It's pretty clear that short of real, clear defamation, the press has a right to print what they want. And it sounds like this was a pretty extensive effort to silence a media outlet that was just doing their job.
Mother Jones posted this article (http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit), explaining a lawsuit that they were defending from a Romney mega-donor who didn't like how they described him.
Now, I know a lot of people here aren't going to be very sympathetic to MoJo on principle. But if we can set that aside for a moment, isn't it a little bit chilling that this was even attempted? It's pretty clear that short of real, clear defamation, the press has a right to print what they want. And it sounds like this was a pretty extensive effort to silence a media outlet that was just doing their job.