At one point last week, after Team Hogan objected to Gawker lawyer Sullivan’s reference to “Mr. Never mind that Campbell allows Bollea to show up in court day after day sporting the trademark Hulk Hogan bandana on his head.
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Campbell, a Jeb Bush appointee who was re-elected in 2014, Bollea has a trial judge who has consistently ruled in his favor and against Gawker-most recently denying the defense’s motion to remove Denton from the lawsuit because he had no role in the decision to post either the video, which Gawker eventually took down, or the accompanying detailed description, which remains on the site.Ĭampbell has even apparently signed on to the plaintiff’s bizarre theory that Hogan and Bollea are actually two distinct personalities-Hogan being the blustery sexual braggart who advertises his prowess, and Bollea being a shy, sensitive, soft-spoken “normal person” who treasures his privacy and whose feelings are easily injured.
Petersburg, has a home field advantage in a case that, but for some slick legal maneuvering, ordinarily would come before a federal court. It’s true, however, that Bollea, a favorite son of Tampa, across the bay from the trial venue of St.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll declare my preference (probably shared by anyone hoping to earn a living at this game) that Hogan-who is suing under his legal name, Terry Bollea-not get a dime out of the jury’s verdict.Īs Gawker’s team of high-priced attorneys managed to place into the trial record last week, there is ample evidence that the 62-year-old Bollea-in his persona as the Hulk-talked freely in radio and television interviews not only about his purported sexual exploits and supposedly massive penis size (“I do not have a 10-inch penis,” he was forced to admit in court under Gawker attorney Michael Sullivan’s withering cross-examination), but he also joked about the sex video in interviews with TMZ and Howard Stern. Petersburg, Florida, has been hearing about a far less principled aspect of the news biz courtesy of Nick Denton’s media empire-the opposite of Spotlight values. Not since All The President’s Men, four decades ago, has the reporting trade been so generally ennobled in the public sphere.īut the state circuit court jury in St. The 2016 winner of the Best Picture Academy Award reveals journalism at its best.
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, in many ways a beneficiary of these trends as a Hulk Hogan-like reality-television star, regularly refers to the news media as “liars” and “scum” at his rowdy, increasingly violent campaign rallies that resemble WWE spectacles.Īlas, the Gawker trial is presenting a damaging and reinforcing narrative (maybe journalists are scum if not precisely liars), just when the reporting trade was a getting a huge lift from the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight, which dramatizes the real-life story of the Boston Globe investigative reporters who exposed the Catholic Church’s cover-up of an epidemic of priestly pedophilia.
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