I’ve hinted over the past year or so at my dismay at a website called LVJournalReview.Com , a project wholly owned and operated by the Nevada Democratic Party but which purports to be a check on bias in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It infuriates me because, of course, I believe that media criticism is incredibly important and…

I got Righthaven LLC chief Steve Gibson on the phone today to find out when he’s going to sue Sharron Angle for lifting entire Review-Journal articles for months and, frequently, not even providing bylines or links. It was an educational conversation. His answer was…

Now the fun starts. As you may know, the Review-Journal has turned over copyrights on its articles to Righthaven LLC to sue dozens of websites and organizations for damages for reposting entire or large swaths of R-J stories. I have supported this effort as an innovative approach to protecting media copyrights, writing a Las Vegas …

Sorry, sorry, sorry for being a lousy blogger this week. Some weeks, I just don’t feel it. I’ll be back on track today and in coming days, I swear. In the meantime, here’s this week’s Las Vegas Weekly piece: Cash is still king Calling BS on Global Cash’s “cashless gaming” proposal By STEVE …

Many of you have written concerned that I could be in legal jeopardy because I frequently quote from and link to stories and other features on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s website. The cause for alarm comes from some recent lawsuits filed by a company called Righthaven LLC defending the R-J’s online copyrights…

At the end of his weekly Sunday column today, longtime Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick announced that he has prostate cancer and will be having surgery this summer. In his words: Because you’re good enough to read this …

At the end of his weekly Sunday column today, longtime Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick announced that he has prostate cancer and will be having surgery this summer. In his words: Because…

In April 2009, the Las Vegas Sun won the city’s first-ever Pulitzer Prize . The graceful folks at the Review-Journal took days to offer kudos publicly, of course, and then went about touting Best of the West prizes picked up by…

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK! RUN AWAY!!! I do so love the weekly R-J neighborhood section The View, especially their bizarro approach to health coverage. (Remember this terrifying headline , re: brain cancer and headaches?) This is…

After I blogged about how the Legislature could find $800,000 + by eliminating its government handout to the likes of small government advocate and publisher Sherman Frederick and free counties from having to print the property tax rolls each year, I heard from State Sen…

Got this interesting note from a brave soul called “Anonymous” earlier tonight and I thought it might be worthwhile to dispose of it here as opposed to as a response in the comments section of that post . I’m…

The prior post drew a response from CityLife publisher Geoff Schumacher. It actually sparked another line of thought that I had overlooked to begin with. So, first, here’s part of Geoff’s response, which is in the comments of the other item: Amy wrote …

So here’s the problem with having both alternative weeklies owned by one of the two major media conglomerates in Las Vegas: They can’t do serious, in-depth coverage of media issues without messy conflicts of interest of their own. Amy Kingsley of Las Vegas CityLife tries this week…

Rarely is there a day when the editorialists at the Las Vegas Review-Journal do not peer out at an unjust world through their extreme-libertarian lenses and find some form of government spending to bash as unnecessary or excessive or a result of our ever-expanding Nanny State. And then, this morning on my driveway, I received the…