BBC plans to fight Trump’s lawsuit

The Guardian examines whether a settlement might be the more sensible option:

“As Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of the Trump-supporting US network Newsmax, said on the Today programme, the case is likely to cost between 50m and 100m to fight, not least because of the burden of discovery prompted by Trump’s lawyers demanding access to every email that mentions him in a bid to find bias. Suggesting a figure of about 10m, Ruddy urged the BBC to settle, like so many US news organisations including ABC and CBS News have already done, in response to this year’s threat. But how can the BBC settle when the case is, by most reasonable measures, absurd?”