Call me a lazy slug, but I’d rather have someone point out the fun stuff in the media morass so I don’t need to wade through it myself.

Well, we at Stephens Media have decided to do something about it. And, I hope other publishers will join me.

We grubstaked and contracted with a company called Righthaven. It’s a local technology company whose only job is to protect copyrighted content. It is our primary hope that Righthaven will stop people from stealing our stuff. It is our secondary hope, if Righthaven shows continued success, that it will find other clients looking for a solution to the theft of copyrighted material.
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So in addition to trying to protect their copyrighted material, the RJ appears to be hoping to create a new profit center with the Righthaven company that they were instrumental in setting up.

I can sympathize with them wanting to protect their copyrighted material. Although a simple email or cease and desist letter would probably have accomplished that with most of the offending websites.

However, it really does seem that they hope to turn a profit from these lawsuits and the Righthaven business they hope to grow from them.

As you say, Rex, there could be an internet backlash to such a plan. There have been others that have scooped up copyrights or patents and tried to make a business out of strong arming and suing others. SCO is a rather infamous example in the technology world. That eventually led to their bankruptcy and the firing of their CEO.

Sherman runs a “news” paper that endorses candidates while covering those same candidates.”

Exactly, Rex.

I am ashamed to admit that I used to read the Las Vegas Review Journal (LVRJ) news online for awhile. I did notice a slant to their news article I didn’t like. But I said to myself, what the hell, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, they probably have a few reporters that have political leanings that differ from me, it’s good to see the other side of a view.

But then, a little bit more time passed, I noticed the slant was not a few reporters, but ALL of them. It was constant. Like they were some kind of ultra right wing neo-conservative hell or something.

I stopped reading and using them for a source of news anymore. I saw I was only getting one side of the story and I was required to read between the lines alot. And realizing fully that I don’t live in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (north Korea) and I have the luxury to pick and choose my news sources, I decided I don’t have to listen to this one side propaganda that borders on stuff spouted out within the borders of the Sovereign Country of Glennbeckistan.

I do make an exception though. I still enjoy reading Mr. Norm Clarke’s entertainment column. Because there is no political slant to Las Vegas entertainment. And Norm ALWAYS follows up stories he got wrong with corrections, possibly the only reporter at the LVRJ that does this regularly.

And it was confirmed that LVRJ was not for me when I watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC one night and lo and behold! Mr. Sherman Frederick showed up on it one night! And that night he received the honor of being bequeathed the title of….. “The Worrrrrrrst Perrrrrrrson in the…..(gotta have this long pause in there…or it don’t make sense…wait for it….okay…NOW!)….WORRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLD!” I laughed my ass off because at the end of the piece, Keith said basically, Sherm? How come you don’t fact check things in your newspaper? YOU’RE AN EDITOR FOR CHRIST SAKE!

Anyways, I can see why he’s pursuing frivolous law suits. He’s got to do something to make money for that rag of a newspaper. To make up for their lagging sales of an inferior news source that people flock away from in droves.

In my humble opinion, that newspaper is only good for either wrapping fish with or being ripped into smaller pieces when in a toilet stall that has no paper.

Having said all that….. Now watch LVRJ sue me for saying derogatory shit about them in that infernal godless VegasRex’ blog and labelling me a islamo nazoid socialist teleprompter reading communist or something……