What Reporters (Can) Do

There's a flap over at the gossip columns of the New York Post's Page Six.

What concerns me is this statement, recorded surrepitiously, made by the main villin, a Jared Paul Stern:-

Mr. Stern spoke of Page Six's power.

"We know how to destroy people," Mr. Stern said, according to a person reading a transcript of the meeting. "It's what we do. We do it without creating liability. That's our specialty."