Thanks to the communications revolution, the general public can now examine allegedly scandalous statements, in their full context, and reach its own informedjudgment on what they mean and whether their author should be punished.
It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.
The Guillaumes were fully informed that they were required to file an answer to the foreclosure complaint, and they also were informed that their efforts to secure a loan modification had not been successful before the trial court entered the default judgment.