Well, it was disgraceful the way this kid was attacked. I was watching at the time and I didn't think he did anything wrong. He just looked at the crazy man and smiled.

I think not just the news companies should be held liable but the individual reporters should be forced to pay a substantial portion out of their individual bank accounts. These settlements certainly hurt the companies but do nothing to hurt the big mouth idiots pushing the false stories.

Everyone handles bizarre, unusual or stressful situations differently. He could have stood his ground firmly. He could’ve turned around and walked away. He could’ve told the Indian to stop banging his drum. But no matter what he did, he would’ve been labeled a racist by the same news sources that labeled him a racist because he was with other white red hat wearing Christian males.

Obviously CNN concluded it was a no win situation or they would not have settled. With that, it would seem that Wa Po and NBC will follow suit. They have trillions of DS funding backing them so once they settle, the media will just make it go away by not drawing any attention to the issue.

Way to go Nick, U R Da Man!....Go have at the rest of them!!!

It didnt disclose the settlement amount, but I hope it was HUGE. CNN is such a disgrace all around. Time for it to just go

My son is tall, blonde, blue-eyed - handsome. He also has autism. He's a good kid with a good heart. He, at his young age, has already been questioning the politically correct people who've attacked him for no reason. It pains me to have to explain it - that he'll be a target because of how he looks. I used to just get into fist fights over it, but he's peaceful and kind and they smell blood when he's around. I have to tell him why he can't say or do certain things...as though we're like any persecuted group in the past.

I'm good with the $800M figure...

Good. I was truly disgusted with how the media fueled the insane hatred for that kid. He did nothing wrong.

jail time would have nice....for all of CNN...CEO included...

Magical! Just magical!

I am trying to get my brain around the $800M financial figure ... How is this amount arrived at? I agree that Sandmann was harassed and wrongly portrayed and that his reputation has suffered damages. But -- I try to see myself in the conference room where Sandmann and his counsel are arriving at a lawsuit figure. What calculus is involved in computation of the number? How, on Earth, do you arrive at $800 Million?

When I watched the Kavanaugh hearings, I placed myself in Mr. Kavanaugh's shoes -- to be the recipient of a fraudulent character assassination. I then tried to come up with the math -- the figures -- in terms of damages to Kavanaugh. In short, I would calculate two numbers: The first number "what is my reputation worth in terms of a dollar figure?" Let's say my counsel and and I run the numbers and we calculate $8 million. Next, we calculate a fraction -- what is the fraction of my reputation that has been destroyed? We come up with 40%. Do the math: 40% of $8M is $3.2 million ... we sue the individuals that made the false claims for damages to the tune of $3.2 million dollars. Notice -- the suit is not with respect to "how much money does the fraud-endorsing claimant have" -- it is based on objectively defendable numeric values in terms of worth that has been damaged.

In Sandmann's case -- if he were to get a settlement for as "little" as $8 million (1/100th of that initially requested), he could put half into blue-chip dividend paying stocks and the other half in residential rental real-estate and be set with ~$300k annually. In short, he would be Set For Life.

If anyone can offer explanation for how that astronomical $800M figure is arrived at, I would like to hear it.