UsWeekly.com Doesn’t Know Squat About Brangelina
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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11:45AM, Tuesday August 5th 2008
That’s because the magazine Us Weekly lives at UsMagazine.com on the web. But guess what occupies UsWeekly.com? A site in support of John McCain for President, which seems to spend all of its space bashing McCain’s opponent, Senator Barack Obama. Some choice diatribes: “Barack Obama’s ‘fight the smears’ campaign is the same strategy Fidel Castro used to convince Cubans to elect him”, “In Indonesia the Barack Obama autobiography titled ‘The Audacity of Hope’ is titled ‘Assault Hope: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse’”, and “Barack Obama warned supporters (behind closed doors of course) that the GOP will use his race to ‘scare’ white voters.”
Technically, the site is titled USWeekly.com, but certainly the people who own the domain name (who don’t seem to be officially affiliated with the McCain camp) must know that the majority (um, entirety) of their traffic comes from people—like me!—looking for the latest juicy gossip on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I guess their hope is that they’ll find an audience in that segment of the population that’ll hear what they have to say and vote accordingly. We wonder, however, if notoriously liberal Us Weekly and Rolling Stone (which put Obama on the cover twice this year) owner, Jann Wenner, is aware of the conservatives squatting on his magazine’s “true” domain name. We smell a case of copyright infringement!
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USweekly
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 02:54 pm: [report]
Nice piece, but a little research is in order. USweekly.com existed before Jann Wenner established Us Weekly Magazine. Any infringement is on Wenner. If that confuses you visit WIPO.org. As for the content of USweekly.com, we strongly suggest you research Obama yourself. Spend an afternoon studying Obama instead of swooning over celebrity babies and you too will find the truth behind Mr. Hope. It’s all there in Obama’s own words. Take a moment, put down the Kool-Aid and look before you leap.
agum
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 03:23 pm: [report]
Any infringement is on Wenner.
If you’re so confident, Mr. USWeekly, why don’t you go sue Rolling Stone?
I do notice that USweekly has a disclaimer at the top, “USweekly.com is not USMagazine.”
But USMagazine.com doesn’t.
I don’t think you’re at all secure about your legal standing.
P.S. 1999 called…they want their web designer back.
Amelia
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 03:35 pm: [report]
@agum Boo-YAH!
USweekly
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 03:56 pm: [report]
We’re not interested in suing Us Magazine, Rolling Stone or Wenner Media. Why would we? We have what we want. No advertising costs and 2 million visitors per
year. We’re happy to let Wenner spread our name around the world. So, thanks for the suggestion, but no thanks. As for the disclaimer at the top - thank you for noticing - we don’t want anyone confusing us with Us Magazine.
lilo
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 06:08 pm: [report]
The level of commenting here is about on a par with the quality of content on Usweekly.com. Sure it’s a good find, but I don’t know why The Frisky would even give them publicity.
JuciBeri
wrote on August 5 2008 @ 07:08 pm: [report]
Wenner obviously hearts Barack. Obama disinvited Reverend Wright to his bid announcement because of a Rolling Stone Interview with Wright in Feb 07. If
Wenner had a patriotic bone in his body he would have exposed Barack and his rabid Father-Figure Pastor then and we would not now be faced with an
Uber-Liberal Empty Suit running on the Democratic Ticket. Go USweekly.com!!!!!!
cbass8
wrote on August 6 2008 @ 06:23 am: [report]
Thanks for the heads up. I’m always happy to be alerted to new trashy gossip sites like USWeekly.com. That site has even less fact than World Weekly News.