Trump Is on a Winning Streak in War on Press: Is the Sullivan Decision Next?
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer About 15 years ago, Guy Lawson had lunch in New York with his editors at Rolling Stone. He was tired of covering the drug wars in Mexico, and wanted to know what else they might be interested in. “We want you to do stories about young people doing fucked-up things,” he was told.
The conversation led to an article about two stoner arms dealers who became entangled in corruption in Albania, which became a book and then the 2016 movie “War Dogs,” starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller. “It was a great story,” Lawson says.
It also got him sued. A year after the movie was released, Shkelzen Berisha, the son of the Albanian prime minister, accused Lawson of defamation.
The suit went to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear it. But two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, sided with Berisha and suggested that New York Times v.
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