{"id":1647,"date":"2003-08-23T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T04:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/23\/fox-loses-fair-and-balanced-suit\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:52:46","slug":"fox-loses-fair-and-balanced-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/23\/fox-loses-fair-and-balanced-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox loses &#039;fair and balanced&#039; suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13686,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3324571&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13687,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0525947647\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0525947647\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A federal judge on Friday slammed Fox News&#8217; trademark infringement lawsuit against Al Franken and his publisher Penguin Group and <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3324571\" title=\"Fox Loses Bid to Stop Sale of Franken Book\">refused to stop the sale of the liberal satirist&#8217;s new book<\/a> that pokes fun at the network and host Bill O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>  Fox charged that Franken had violated its trademarked phrase &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; by including it on the cover of his book entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525947647\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them\">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them<\/a>.&#8221; Fox is owned by News Corp.\u00a0and Penguin is a unit of Pearson. The book went on sale on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an easy case,&#8221; said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. &#8220;This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really think that Fox stood a chance with this, but it&#8217;s good to know for sure!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably leave the &#8216;Fair and balanced&#8217; tagline on my site for a few more days, then change it to something else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/\" title=\"The Hanscom Family Weblog\">Dad<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an  easy case,&#8217; said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. &#8216;This case is  wholly without merit both factually and legally.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}