With regard to the Fox lawsuit against Al Franken, I've heard several pundits comment about the general absurdity of being allowed to trademark a common phrase like "fair and balanced." So here's a question: is the phrase "fair and balanced" really a common phrase, or do we just think it's common because of Fox? Were people regularly using the phrase before Fox adopted it?
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When did Fox begin using it? I did a search for "fair and balanced" on the news archive that my office uses (which is primarily financial publications), and there were 281 articles using the term in 1990 and 1991.
Posted by PoB | August 26, 2003 2:24 PM
Posted on August 26, 2003 14:24