my good friend kate bolger, to quote her, who's a lovely, lovely person and very talented and respected media defense lawyer, was recently quoted as saying that she relies on the sullivan standard quote, every day of her life as a first amendment litigator and how she advises her clients. it's not just in litigation that media defense lawyers rely on the actual malice standards. it's how they advise their clients on prepublication conduct and review before these allegations, before stories are published. for the media, after having been told so long that basically anything goes, it is no surprise that standards have seriously eroded and basically anything goes. so what does the world look like where sullivan is overturned? is it doomsday for the press? would it be the end of our democratic republic because the press would be out of business? and politicians and the powerful would no longer be held accountable. no. hardly. let me give you two reasons why. first, the media is largely owned by large for-profit companies, many of whom are publicly traded, who are rational actors who act in