Josh Marshall, from John Gruber:
It all comes down to a simple point. You may not like Gawker. They’ve published
stories I would have been ashamed to publish. But if the extremely wealthy,
under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that’s a
far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly
worry about on that front. If this is the new weapon in the arsenal of the
super rich, few publications will have the resources or the death wish to
scrutinize them closely.