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Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright
An anonymous reader writes "Remember Righthaven? The copyright troll owned by the owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal? You may remember, then, that Righthaven had sued Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting LVRJ stories on her site. At the same time, LVRJ has been having its execs talk about how copyright infringement is no different than garden variety theft. So ... doesn't it seem a bit odd that the LVRJ is endorsing the very same candidate that it sued for such 'theft'?"
. So ... doesn't it seem a bit odd
Corporations aren't just immortals, they're schizophrenic immortals. With 'human' rights.
Try to keep this straight.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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That's not odd, that's how it's supposed to work. The editorial staff should be independent from the business side of the business. It's only after being exposed to Murdoch-media for too long that you think the owner should be the only one deciding the newspaper's opinions.
It's also possible that the owner is - shock! - able to disagree with someone on one issue but agrees on others. Or maybe he doesn't put his own interest ahead of what he thinks is good for society. OF course if you want to be cynical, maybe he wants the candidate to win so she can pay whatever he's suing for.
Fleur de Sel
Just a statement on how bad the opposing candidate is.
Awesome!
This reminds me of Fox News accusing Fox news co-owner of terror funding.
I only read newspapers for the hilarity of their inaccuracy and the absurdity of what they leave in and what they leave out.
About twenty years ago when my children were small and we lived in a bad neighborhood, there was a gang war right down the street. Probably more than 50 rounds were fired; it sounded similar to strings of firecrackers going off (the timbre was different, of course). An innocent bystander was shot and crippled as he tried to get his kids inside. I watched a police car go airborne as it crossed the railroad tracks ate a very high rate of speed. Two days later the crack house the gangsters lived in "mysteriously" burned to the ground.
Not a word of this made the paper, although "news" of petty vandalism and burglaries and so forth were.
A few weeks ago a school bus carrying fifteen kids ran a red light and was hit by an SUV, and missed being hit by inches by another vehicle. This happened less than two minutes before I walked into the bar at that intersection. Several police cars showed up, then another school bus came by, parked in the biker bar's* parking lot and the kids got on it and left. There were no injuries, but the SUV's air bags deployed and it was damaged pretty severely.
The next day's paper carried stories about fender benders, petty vandalism, and residential burglaries. Not a word about the school bus wreck or the school bus driver running a red light with kids on board.
And they wonder why their circulation continues to drop.
* Google maps is out of date; the place is called "Scooter's" now.
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Endorsing Sharron Angle is simply just a survival tactic for the newspapers. The gaffes, foibles, unfounded and inaccurate claims she makes almost every time she opens her mouth guarantees that the newspaper will be in business for at least the next 6 years.
... We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported." --Sharron Angle, during an interview with Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron, Aug. 2, 2010
"We needed to have the press be our friend
Spoken like a true statesperson.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
They're trying to get her to repost the endorsement so they can file an additional lawsuit.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Did you get sued for it? Maybe you should think about running for office.
"The fart party: we promise to break the political gridlock in washington and also promise to break wind."
Maybe democrats should look into this as a method of getting past fillibustering everything: there's probably not a rule against farting in the face of the speaker to make him pass out (thus breaking the fillibuster). It's also not like that would be beneath the dignity of the senate.
Bout the only thing I have heard her say that sounded to have some kind of sanity to it was not fluorinating tap water.
$irony++;
Their lawsuit gives them leverage over her.
If she wins, she gets power.
It's good for business to have leverage over people in power.
As opposed to when their partiality is more subtle? You just take their news at face value then?
Always be suspicious of the reporting. Always. It's all done by partial observers. All of it.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
No, not really. Everything associated with Sharron Angle is somewhere between Odd and Just Plain Fucking Nuts.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Is editorial independence such a foreign concept to you 'mericans ?
Possibly so. Thank goodness you're here to explain it to us.
Making blanket statements about other nationalities, however, is a concept we're very familiar with.
You seem to have misspelled fascist.