13.12.2016 - 09:35 [ Techdirt ]

If You‘re Worried About What President Trump Can Do To The Press, Blame President Obama

as a story at Politco is noting, it‘s probably not libel laws that reporters should be worried about: it‘s things like the Espionage Act and bogus intrusive investigations of reporters by the DOJ. And, really, while the report only mentions this in passing, if a President Trump goes down that route, it‘ll be because he‘s picking up on the trend created by his predecessor, President Obama.