Comments on: Area paper battles blogger http://elginite.org/blog/2009/07/03/area-paper-battles-blogger/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: RS http://elginite.org/blog/2009/07/03/area-paper-battles-blogger/#comment-47569 RS Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:29:05 +0000 http://elginite.org/?p=2064#comment-47569 That's a great point, rm. I remember that was national news when it happened. It was on Drudge Report. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=095-0506&GA=095 That’s a great point, rm. I remember that was national news when it happened. It was on Drudge Report.

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=095-0506&GA=095

]]> By: rm http://elginite.org/blog/2009/07/03/area-paper-battles-blogger/#comment-47556 rm Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:24:53 +0000 http://elginite.org/?p=2064#comment-47556 Shaw Printing's suit is a bit ironic inasmuch as they were on the losing end of a $7 million verdict for libeling (via columnist Bill Page in the Kane County Chronicle) Illinois Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas. The verdict did get reduced by a few million. But maybe - given the current dreadful economic state of newspaper publishing - Shaw has concluded from the Thomas verdict that it's easier to make money attacking the publishing of information than it is to make money publishing information. Shaw Printing’s suit is a bit ironic inasmuch as they were on the losing end of a $7 million verdict for libeling (via columnist Bill Page in the Kane County Chronicle) Illinois Supreme Court Justice Bob Thomas. The verdict did get reduced by a few million. But maybe - given the current dreadful economic state of newspaper publishing - Shaw has concluded from the Thomas verdict that it’s easier to make money attacking the publishing of information than it is to make money publishing information.

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