Today, I am reliably informed, is “Fair and Balanced” day on the Internet. In response to the decision by the (un)fair and (un)balanced Fox News to sue a US satirist for breaching the trademark they claim to hold over the English-language sentence “Fair and Balanced” (he’s about to publish a book called “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right“), people all over the world are creatively using the words Fair and Balanced all over their sites today.
Part of me suspects that this whole thing might have begun as some massive publicity stunt, but it seems like an appropriate topic to post here, as it fits rather nicely into my recent theme of mass Internet-related action (cf. Amazon reviews and flash mobs).
My only concern is that it might take longer than one day to googlewash Fox out of the search results altogether…
Links: Neal Pollack (who started this), some fair and balanced websites, Google search for “Fair and Balanced”.