AAN News
Metro Gets Injunction Against Rival's Use of Namenew
Dan Pulcrano, publisher of Metro Silicon Valley, says he's never "seen someone so blatantly try and enter a market by
expropriating a trademark and associating it with a knockoff product as we
have seen with the current 'SurfMetro/The Wave' folks." Federal Judge Claudia
Wilken has issued a preliminary injunction against SurfMet Inc. barring them from using the Metro
name on their publication and Web site. Wilken told SurfMet that she may allow them to use the mark "if you want to use it to sell toothbrushes in Des Moines—maybe."
Metro Silicon Valley news release |
07-10-2002 9:58 am |
Industry News
Tags: Metro Silicon Valley
Federal Court Issues Injunction Prohibiting Publication's Use of Metro Trademark
07-10-2002 9:47 am |
Legal News
Tags: Metro Silicon Valley
Creative Loafing Atlanta Calls for Bush's Resignationnew
“Have you no morals, Mr. Bush?” asks John Sugg, senior editor of Creative Loafing Atlanta. Sugg echoes the Declaration of Independence addressed to King George III to make the case for President Bush's resignation. Sugg's revision of the Declaration asks today's George II, "It is fitting for the People to ask: To whom do you answer? Your constituency is obvious to those who look -- the band of lawless corporate marauders who seek to loot the world's wealth, squander the planet's resources and gamble with American workers' salaries and savings. It is not too extreme to say that you run a quisling puppet government for the pinstriped corporate warlords."
Medill Writing Conference Dates Set
Sept. 27-29 for wordsmithing weekend
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
07-09-2002 4:10 pm |
Association News
Palo Alto Weekly Judged Best Large Weekly by CNPA
Also tops in editorial pages, sports page
(FULL STORY)
07-09-2002 10:57 am |
Press Releases
Yesse! Talking to Buyer, Mulling Changesnew
The owner of Impact Weekly is discussing a sale of the paper to Kentucky-based Landmark Community Newspapers Inc., the Dayton Business Journal reports, although Landmark's president says, "We're not even close to making an offer." Yesse! Vice President Kerry Farley, who wants the weekly to focus more on suburban readers, says editorial changes may be in store even if the paper isn't sold. Meanwhile, Yesse! President Craig Hitchcock tells the business journal
that ownership of Illinois Times may revert to former owner Fletcher "Bud" Farrar if Yesse! fails to pay the remaining balance on the paper.
Dayton Business Journal |
07-08-2002 2:43 pm |
Industry News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Caught Red-Handednew
In a letter to the editor (see "We deserved credit," third from top), Pittsburgh City Paper Editor Andy Newman notes that the daily's Dan Fitzpatrick relied on City Paper reporting but failed to credit the paper.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
07-08-2002 1:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Pittsburgh City Paper
Naval Strategists Plan for Cyber-Warnew
The United States has entered a new era of warfare where its enemies hide in the shadows and are highly organized. So how does the U.S. fight these new military threats? War scholar John Arquilla suggests a non-conventional, high-technological war machine. "We're going to have to learn to think like these networks," he says. "The best organizations of the future will think like a street gang, swarm like a soccer team and organize like Wal-Mart." Andrew Scutro of Monterey County Coast Weekly visits the Naval Postgraduate School to talk to military strategists in the first installment in a series on Monterey County, Calif.'s involvement in the War on Terror.
Angry Thais Deluge City Paper with E-Mailsnew
Saint Jack's bar and restaurant has withdrawn its ad in the Philadelphia City Paper depicting the king of Thailand (a demi-God to his people) as a "bling-bling hipster," but the letters and e-mails continue to roll in, Howard Altman writes. "One man explained. 'It's like if I dig your
beloved parents body from the grave. And I kick them like toys then I drag them through the very long
road. Finally, I leave your parent's body for dogs and the dogs might not eat them cuz they are so terrible ...
can you take it if it's just my 'Joke' ha?!'"
Philadelphia City Paper |
07-03-2002 12:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Philadelphia City Paper
Vegan Like Menew
Ever wonder what it would be like to live without byproducts of animals? That's what vegans do. That means no meat, no dairy products, and for one New York couple, no breast milk for their newborn child. Caryn B. Brooks of Willamette Week entered the wacky and misunderstood world of vegans for two weeks. "No eggs, no butter, no cheese, no
meat: one carnivore's journey," is how she describes it. How she felt afterward surprised her.
The Primate Research Businessnew
Animal research is big business for medical researchers, but animal rights groups are hoping scientists will find alternative methods of research besides testing and euthanizing animals. The Animal Protection Institute and In Defense of Animals recently sued the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California - Davis to prevent the animal testing facility from expanding a project that will increase the number of primates used for testing. Dr. Jeff Roberts, associate director of the Primate Center, tells Rashida Smith of the Sacramento News & Review, “I don’t want to use animals in research. But if we have to use animals to help understand biological phenomenon, then we’re going to.”
