If Fox News is going to have to hire lawyers to defend the accuracy of its “Fair and Balanced” against MoveOn.org’s silly and abusive complaint (see Jul. 20), how many other media outfits are going to need to worry about backing up their puffish slogans? David Giacalone, guest-posting at Legal Underground, has a funny post (Jul. 24) listing various newspaper slogans that publishers might wish to reconsider, from the Atlanta Journal’s “Covers Dixie Like the Dew” (substantiation, please) to the Toledo Blade’s “One of America’s Great Newspapers — In One of America’s Great Cities”.
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Evan-handed coverage
“newspaper 2” We interrupt this haiku moment to thank Evan Schaeffer of Notes from the (Legal) Underground for launching his new Saturday Guest Feature with an offering from your humble Editor on the MoveOn-FoxNews tiff over the “fair and balanced” slogan