Astounding. Forbes magazine recommends that corporations profiled by blogs issue swift personal vendettas against the bloggers that criticize them. Becuase... you know... corporations are the real victims here, and without exception act in the interests of the public good and can always be expected to behave honestly and lawfully. If you've ever posted anything online, you have to read this to understand how the conservative mind views journalism and free speech.

Among the tactics that Forbes magazine recommend is filing harrassing, phony lawsuits against parties known to be un-liable (!!!!) to get at those with opinions that run contrary to the corporation's profit-minded goals:

"ATTACK THE HOST. Find some copyrighted text that a blogger has lifted from your Web site and threaten to sue his Internet service provider under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That may prompt the ISP to shut him down. Or threaten to drag the host into a defamation suit against the blogger. The host isn't liable but may skip the hassle and cut off the blogger's access anyway. Also: Subpoena the host company, demanding the blogger's name or Internet address." *

(* fair use)

The Daily Jive, meanwhile, is still awaiting its multimillion-dollar guaranteed, no-compete, no-bid contract.