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Last week, I was in Kansas City for a gathering of media lawyers—one of those slightly anxious, take-the-temperature-of-the-moment affairs. The topics ranged widely: the arrest of Don Lemon, the raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home, and the not-so-small matter of what all this is doing to publisher insurance premiums. I joined a panel on weathering the storm, where we swapped war stories and floated strategies for what comes next. (I offered my own mildly heretical view that media outlets, and their reporters, should consider going on offense in libel cases more often.)
