O'Reilly Changed Name of debate Contest After Lawsuit

[stewert]

This is a good one, marketing executive Jay Schorr of Florida has filed a plagiarism lawsuit against FOX News and Bill O'Reilly, claiming that they stole the idea for the "Great Factor Debate Contest" from him. And yesterday O'Reilly changed the name of the debate contest to the "Bloviate with Bill" contest.

I posted about the contest in my forums as soon as the contest was mentioned.

Here is what it said on the foxnews.com website before the lawsuit was filed:

Would you like to sit on the set of "The Factor" and let Bill O'Reilly have it?! The Great "Factor" Debate contest is underway and here's the deal:

And now today it says this:

Would you like to sit on the set of "The Factor" and let Bill O'Reilly have it?! Our "Bloviate with Bill" contest is underway and here's the deal:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181845,00.html

So O'Reilly has changed the name of the debate contest to Bloviate with Bill. This guy Schorr is serious, he owns a marketing company, and they created the jingle for Kmart’s successful Fall ‘05 advertising campaign.

Mr. Schorr says he is going to pursue every legal recourse available to him in prosecuting O’Reilly and Fox.

“Mr. O’Reilly holds himself out as a paragon of virtue and makes a big deal about his show’s ‘no spin zone’ in which guests are not allowed to spin any b.s. on matters at-hand,” said Schorr. “Apparently Mr. O’Reilly chose to leave the zone when he plagiarized my program and will continue to try to spin the facts as this case progresses.”

Schorr says he has no intention of settling out of court with O’Reilly as did a former Factor producer who sued O’Reilly in October 2004 for sexual harassment.

http://i-newswire.com/pr54394.html

In case you dont know it, this debate contest is a scam anyway. It says this on the rules page:

Sponsor reserves full editorial rights to edit the segment and determine whether or not to air it.

So it will be taped and the sponsor reserves the right to edit it and to decide if it airs at all, what a fraud of a contest.

The rules protect O'Reilly, all the debates will be edited so O'Reilly don't look too bad, and that's if they air at all.

A complete look at the contest rules is below:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181845,00.html