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January 2011: the Courtney Love Twitter-defamation trial and its forensics expert
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2011 In early January 2011, FishbowlLA previewed the upcoming defamation trial between Courtney Love and fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir — a case built around Love’s Twitter posts. The original framing noted that the guaranteed highlight had been expected to be…
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March 2013: San Diego’s Doug Porter on the Koch-Manchester-Tribune buyout rumors
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2013 In mid-March 2013, FishbowlLA tracked San Diego Free Press columnist Doug Porter’s skeptical reaction to the swirling rumors that the Koch brothers — possibly in partnership with San Diego U-T owner Doug Manchester — might buy the Tribune Company’s…
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Erin Aubry Kaplan’s January 2013 KCET column — a Leimert Park reader, an off-line phone call, and Black-LA-Times coverage
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013 In early January 2013, Erin Aubry Kaplan’s first KCET blog post of the new year — published in KCET’s SoCal Focus commentary section — drew an unusual reader response: a 74-year-old Leimert Park grandmother named Ann did not Google…
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PMC and Prometheus settle the Deadline/THR copyright suit — and the road to the eventual THR acquisition
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late March 2013, PMC and Prometheus Global Media settled the 2011 copyright-infringement lawsuit that had defined the public-facing posture of the Deadline-vs-THR rivalry for 18 months. Jay Penske’s company announced the deal at the close of a busy week that…
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January 2012: a California prison bars an inmate from reading The Atlantic
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, January 2012 In mid-January 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a story — originally surfaced by sister blog FishbowlDC — about a California prison barring an inmate from reading the December 2011 issue of The Atlantic. The inmate, a woman serving a long…
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July 2012: Eriq Gardner’s THR item, Dan Abrams’s Mediaite response, and a photo-copyright suit
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, July 2012 In early July 2012, FishbowlLA tracked a small back-and-forth between The Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite. THR’s legal-affairs writer Eriq Gardner had published an item about a photo-copyright lawsuit against the Mediaite-network site Styleite. Mediaite owner Dan Abrams fired back…
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October 2012: Deadline pulls an Ari Emanuel lawsuit item, and Nikki Finke posts a rare apology
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, October 2012 In mid-October 2012, Deadline.com reporter Dominic Patten filed an item about an Ari Emanuel lawsuit. The item was quickly pulled, and Nikki Finke posted what the original FishbowlLA framing called “the diametrical opposite of a TOLDJA!” — a rare…
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KPCC’s Tony Pierce gives LA Times LAUSD coverage an F — April 2012 schools-press critique
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In mid-April 2012, KPCC’s Tony Pierce posted a sharp critique of how LA Times reporter Howard Blume had been covering an LAUSD proposal to eliminate D-grades from passing-grade calculations. Pierce’s blog post called out the structural under-resourcing of LA…
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Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Dotcom cover story — Daniel Miller, Matthew Belloni, and the Megaupload prosecution
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, May 2012 In early May 2012, The Hollywood Reporter ran a cover story on Kim Dotcom — the Megaupload founder whose January 2012 New Zealand arrest had triggered one of the most-cited copyright-and-platform legal cases of the era. Daniel Miller and…
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Bill Handel’s March 2012 on-air flashpoint — KFI, the Black Media Alliance, and the Limbaugh aftermath
By Jordan Vega · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, March 2012 In early March 2012, KFI AM 640 morning host Bill Handel said the words “dumb ass women” on-air while discussing a Kansas abortion case. The Black Media Alliance flagged the segment; the Burbank-based KFI management was, in the original…