Righthaven, the Nevada company that is suing people all over the internet for “copyright violations” is in serious financial troubles: Despite its backing by the billionaire Warren Stephens family, Las Vegas copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC warned today it may have to file for bankruptcy because of a series of setbacks in its litigation campaign. […]
After years of the right wing claiming George Soros was funding Media Matters, the billionaire decided to cave and write his first check to the website: Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war againstFox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 […]
Things that stop and make you say OMFG: Former eBay executive Meg Whitman is defending $119 million in contributions she has made to her campaign for California governor — a personal spending rate that has now surpassed that of any other political candidate in American history. Whitman’s campaign this week reported another $15 million contribution […]
Times are tough for poor Rupert, so he has decided the time is coming to charge people to read his news: Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation‘s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ”malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall […]
While I am sure the Republicans are more interested in the pornographic nature of the publication, as a recent survey suggests, Playboy is also good at investigating stories. The whole “I get it for the articles” thing does have some merit to it, and this piece by Playboy hits a homerun on that very notion. […]
Good for him. This kind of garbage has no place in our political landscape: Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads. Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation […]