Sony Corp. has unleashed attack dog lawyer David Boies on Big Media outlets such as the New York Times, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal to demand they destroy any of its emails, contracts and other documents that have provided much gossipy grist stolen by hackers alleged to be aligned with North Korea who broke into its communications system last month.

interviewBoies, who led Al Gore's legal dream team in the Florida recount debacle, issued the three-page threat that warns media they will be held "responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by you.”

Sony should drop its ham-fisted threat against the nation's biggest media that would relish the fight on behalf of their First Amendment rights.

The Japanese company has many other real woes to contend with, such as its ongoing corporate restructuring plan.

The hackers also have promised the release of even more damaging information than the gossipy tidbits and accounts of backstabbing that are rife in Hollywood that are all over the Internet.

Fox News reported today that Sony's blockbuster James Bond and Spider Man franchises may have been compromised. A weekend information dump included an early screenplay for the Bond film, Spectre, according to the 21st Century Fox unit. Rupert Murdoch controls both the WSJ and 21st Century Fox.

With the Christmas Day release date for "The Interview," a comedy that is built around an assassination plot targeting North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, drawing near, Sony needs all the media allies that it can get.

The New York Times reported today that co-directors of The Interview, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wanted to "push the creative boundaries." They want to move to be viewed as a "really sharp geopolitical satire."

Rogen and Goldberg have hit the jackpot.

North Korea has called The Interview as "act of war."

Sony's bid to muzzle the press is a self-inflected wound in that battle.