The only place where news outlets could possibly get in real trouble for printing those naked pictures of Prince Harry is in the U.K., where royal officials have warned the press not to print them. Not to be deterred, those papers are printing stories based on pictures which they can't run.
If you haven't yet read Mike Giglio's story in NewsBeast about the investigation into Piers Morgan's stock scandal in 2000, you should, if only to read the first few paragraphs about how terrified the then newspaper editor was about bad press and an investigation.
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