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lawsuits

Jay-Z Kool With Herc; Voodoo Issue Still Unresolved

Yesterday, a man named Clive Campbell filed a wacky $5 billion lawsuit against rap star and partial New Jersey Nets owner Jay-Z, as well as others associated with the huge Atlantic Yards construction project in downtown Brooklyn (which includes a new stadium for the Nets). The charge was that because Barclay's bought naming rights to the stadium, and was possibly involved in the slave trade way back when, everyone involved was illegally profiting from slavery. So that will be dismissed quickly. More interesting: Clive Campbell is the real name of DJ Kool Herc, the old school master widely credited as the founder of hip hop. So outlets started reporting that Kool Herc was suing Jay-Z—intergenerational hip hop madness! But then it came out that this was a different Clive Campbell [Gothamist]. Too bad, cause that would have been crazy. Now Jay-Z can turn his attention to warding off this "Voodoo Priestest"!: More »

4:28 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
655 views, 8 comments

Latest by The Assimilated Negro: Mr. Nolan, I chastised you for the weird stout/jay-z analysis, but i do appreciate you bringing something resembling a hip hop beat to gawk. it's just unfortunate that jay-z's name isn't a guaranteed 3-5K in pageview like, say, Jay-Allison. maybe more »

newspapers

LAT Editor Invents New Kind of Voodoo

Deposed Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea describes as "voodoo economics" the idea that tightening of newsroom spending is necessary to the survival of newspapers. We don't want to be too pedantic here, but wasn't that expression used in an wholly different context? When coined by George Bush the Elder, in his campaign for the 1980 Republican nomination, voodoo economics was a description of Ronald Reagan's fiscal recklessness. Which is an accusation one can certainly not levy against the LA Times' owners, the penny-pinching Tribune Company.

6:12 PM on Mon Jan 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
325 views, 5 comments

Latest by VirusWithShoes: "creativity and resourcefulness of journalists" = working more, for less, in weaselize... "because he is a smart businessman and he understands the value of wise investment." When will any of these faceless automatons realise that buying and running a newspaper is more »