Amy Gajda, Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, responds to the question, “What if the framers arrived here and were sitting in this conference today. The framers of the first Amendment. Would they think we, as a country, have been true to the general principles that caused them to put this First Amendment in the Bill of Rights in the first place?” Posed by moderator Ken Gormley, President of Duquesne University, on day one of the National Conference on the First Amendment Sunday Oct. 21, 2018, at Duquesne University’s Power Center Ballroom Uptown. ÒI think that one of the most interesting things that the framers would be particularly interested in today is this clash between the freedom of the press and the right to privacy. And at what point we should punish the press or anyone who reveals private information about an individual. This is what led to the $140 million jury verdict in favor of Hulk Hogan against the gawker website that had published a sex tape featuring him. But it also led to more recently to a settlement against ESPN brought by a New York Giants football player. ESPN had published a medical chart, his medical chart. And so I think that that clash is one of the most interesting ones. We want to protect individual privacy in some way, at what point do we decide that the freedom of the press to report that truthful information should be punished?Ó (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)