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> While that is terrible, I don't know if you can argue it is terrible to the tune of what they've done to Jones.

As a single human being, he's literally not capable of suffering as much as the bereaved relatives of a classroom full of murdered children, shortly afterwards made the targets often by name and photo of the most insane people in the country.

> Every major media outlet has some instances of, effectively, targeted harassment in their history.

Is this even an argument? They get sued all the time, and lose. They haven't ever viciously and endlessly gone after the parents of a classroom full of dead children. They did go after Richard Jewell and Steven J. Hatfill, though.






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