Posted on 09/16/2010 12:21:41 PM PDT by Freddd
FOX News today filed a lawsuit against far left democrat Robin Carnahan! Local KSDK reported:
Fox News is taking aim at US Senate Democratic candidate Robin Carnahan.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com ...
Fox News is taking aim at US Senate Democratic candidate Robin Carnahan.
Fox News filed a lawsuit against her campaign organization for unauthorized use of TV footage of Fox anchor Christopher Wallace. They’re calling it a smear ad against her Republican opponent Roy Blunt.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/
Wow! I really am shocked.
Amazed I am. The rule is that dims always get a pass and do no wrong.
More at the link.
The ad has been removed from their site.
The Carnahans and the Blunts.
Aren’t they like the Hatfields and the McCoys?
So is Fox going to sue if anybody uses the anti-O’Donnell crap that Rove spewed on their netowrk?
I'm sure they will. In point of fact, networks file these kinds of suits every election cycle against Democrats and Republicans. It has much more to do with protecting their copyright, than advocating for a particular point of view.
BTW, I think that some kind of copyright exception, or expansion of the fair use doctrine should be made to allow campaigns to use media interviews of their opposition in commercials. But, that will probably never happen.
The democrats at PBS and NBC (and others, I don’t know) have already done that, under the guise of “news” of course.
Of course. I was referring to campaign ads.
I’m pretty sure there already is — the problem is using the clips of the station employees, not clips of people being interviewed.
You can notice on Rush’s show that he generally READS the questions asked of people, and then plays clips of their answers. That gets around the issues of using the voices of the station employees.
So was I. (they call it the news)
MO definately needs some new political blood.
Yes, I think there's something to that. But, Rush is using the fair use exceptions that lasts for some period of time after broadcast - several days I think. But I think there are additional restrictions to playing audio or video of a media interview - interviewee or interviewer - in a campaign commercial. You will certainly see excerpts of opponents saying things on the stump, but I can't remember excerpts of any actual media appearances.
I’ve heard a lot of people say that.
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