Hulk Hogan
That’s the thing people remember… People are doubtful until you show them. You can’t just tell.
— Nick Denton, testifying at the trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media for invasion of privacy, comparing Hulk Hogan’s sex tape, which was posted online by Gawker, to the importance video footage had on tearing down the Berlin Wall. On cross, however, Denton made it clear that posting a sex tape and the Berlin Wall coming down weren’t the same, “They were very different stories.” Denton tried to make the point that younger readers treat all information without visual corroboration with skepticism, which was part of the assessment that posting Hogan’s sex tape was newsworthy.