Super secret media hit

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 15th, 2011

The Male Half got a nice hit in the local paper. (The local paper, in this case, is the Las Vegas Review-Journal.) It’s a nice article by Corey Levitan that contains mini-profiles of The Male Half and four other Vegas-based comics who “haven’t yet turned the corner to fame.”

Geechy Guy, Ron Shock, Matt Markman and Rob Sherwood are the others in the quintet.

You can read it for yourself (and see the sweet picture of TMHOTS!) by Googling “lvrj mckim” (without the quotes, of course).

It’s a very nice thing to get such a high-profile (front page of the arts and leisure section, above the fold, color pic) hit just 122 days after hitting town.

And normally we’d link to it, maybe even run the pic and an excerpt from the copy, but we’re dealing with the Stephens Media-owned Las Vegas Review-Journal. And they employ a company whose sole purpose is to harass blogs and other websites for copyright infringement. (We’ve posted about this in the past.)

The deal is, if you link to a piece (or excerpt from a piece) in one of the publications that this company is acting on behalf of, you open yourself up to ruinous litigation. Thus the rather ungainly Googling advised above.

(There is hope. A judge here in Nevada has ruled that the company “has made multiple inaccurate and likely dishonest statements to the court” and that they must “show cause, in writing, no later than two weeks from the date of this order, why it should not be sanctioned for this flagrant misrepresentation to the court.” Pretty strong language from the man with the gavel. We can link to that article without fear. Some law bloggers are speculating that it could be the end of the company. Others have even speculated that it could signal the end of the aforementioned Stephens Media!)

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