NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN: State rep confirms that son is subject of Palin e-mail chatter. A UT-Knoxville student, no less. Should’ve studied harder . . . .

UPDATE: Do journalists care about your privacy if you aren’t a terrorist? “Here we have an actual invasion of an American citizen’s privacy, and what is the press’s attitude? If the AP is representative (and given its organizational structure, it should be), it is to regard ‘questions about the propriety’ of the victim as more important than the invasion of privacy itself.” That depends. Had Obama’s email been hacked by a Republican, it would be Watergate all over again. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Gerard van der Leun argues for mercy.

Plus, a reader emails: “Could you at least mention that he is a democrat, because no one else will?”

The Tennessean story does. And so does this story from the Knoxville News-Sentinel.