Talking to the Press Considered Harmful

[David Honig]

At 09:30 PM 10/9/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
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>2. Enforcement. Having a tape is not very useful. (Declan says some 
>court rulings say that verbal agreements are binding, but this presumes 
>that one would bother to sue, hire the lawyers, and see it through. I 
>know I wouldn't. I'd rather pay $5000 to have a lying journalist whacked 
>than spend a hundred thousand bucks fighting AOL Time Warner or General 
>Electric and, probably, losing.)

Yes in general it sounds about as much fun as a subpeona to Washington
state in winter.