The latest legal battle over a name: Fox News vs. Al Franken (1 Viewer)

[Patrick_S]

Fox dropped their lawsuit. Franken should send them a thank you basket for all the free publicity.

Fox drops suit

 

[Jeff Kleist]

I think they saw that they'd just be throwing money away, and making Franken more and more famous.

 

[Michael Reuben]

And when the judge who's handling the case comments for the record that the case has no legal or factual merit, then it's time to rethink your position.

M.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Well, Drudge reported that this was basically all out of spite anyway on the part of O'Reilley, I wouldn't be suprised if it was the money people at Fox News that said "Spent enough, backfired, time to move on"

 

[Michael Reuben]

Drudge reported that this was basically all out of spite anyway on the part of O'Reilley

IOW, he drew the same inference that everyone else had already drawn.

M.

 

[Michael Caicedo]

I saw Al's lawyer on the Today show last week, he was practically giggling throughout the interview.

 

[Holadem]

To use the correct form of the expression, Mr. Franken must be crying all the way to the bank.

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[Jesse Blacklow]

This book is hilarious. It's like he said, literary jujitsu. They say it, all he has to do is say funny things about how wrong they are. This is with their own research, too. Great book, and my conservative roomate has already gotten annoyed just seeing it lying around.

 

[Ashley Seymour]

Well, Drudge reported that this was basically all out of spite anyway on the part of O'Reilley, I wouldn't be suprised if it was the money people at Fox News that said "Spent enough, backfired, time to move on"

Actually it was more like "Spent a little, got mega publicity, made millions, time to find another silly issue to make more on." As I said before, both of these parties made a lot of money.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Anyone want to start taking bets on the title of Bill O'Reilley's next book?I'm betting on "Al Franken is a Big Fat Idiot"

 

[Patrick_S]

Actually it was more like "Spent a little, got mega publicity, made millions, time to find another silly issue to make more on." As I said before, both of these parties made a lot of money.

I really would like to know how Fox made millions from this? Did their ratings go up? I know it's possible but somehow I doubt this suit has gained them a legion of new viewers.

Franken on the other hand probably did gain some additional sales from this so he most likely did came out better then Fox on this one.

 

[Ashley Seymour]

Franken on the other hand probably did gain some additional sales from this so he most likely did came out better then Fox on this one

Franken most likely did made a few more dollars on the margin. He certainly will make more than anyone individually at Fox.

Fox on the other hand is like Donald Trump. The Donald one said that he sought publicity. Even bad publicity was good because he maintained name recognition and that made him money. This little tete a tete between Fox and Franken just give a few more days of having Fox on the consciousness of the existing and potential viewer. Fox doesn't have to bring in NEW viewrs to make this profitable. It is important to keep the existing viewers. When Coke runs an ad, I don't run out to buy a Coke. But the name recognition is always there.

I am almost of the opinion that this so called battle between these two is subconsciously driven for the reasons I gave above.

One of my favorite sayings, "Where there's a dollar, there's a way!"

 

[Holadem]

I stumbled upon the book at B&N today, and read the chapter on O'Reilly (rather than studying ). I loved it (splotches ).

What a fucknut.

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