{"id":72,"date":"2003-08-12T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2003-08-12T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T19:00:03","slug":"fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/72","title":{"rendered":"Fair and Balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A45293-2003Aug11?language=printer\">sued<\/a> Al Franken for the title of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0525947647\/qid=1060711387\/sr=8-3\/ref=sr_8_3\/104-5301738-3146323?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">new book<\/a>:  &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.&#8221;  Specifically, they think using the phrase &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; is an infringement of trademark.  People with more expertise than I have explained why this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003775.html\">total crap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_atrios_archive.html#106069927128543262\">a lot<\/a> of blogs have added the phrase to their titles.  Add me to the list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News sued Al Franken for the title of his new book: &#8220;Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.&#8221; Specifically, they think using the phrase &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; is an infringement of trademark. People with more expertise than I have explained why this is total crap. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}