Why Valleywag's Nick Douglas got fired: He wanted lawsuit
Here’s a link that explains why Nick Douglas got fired. In short, it resulted from the interview Douglas gave to 10 Zen Monkeys, which we pointed to earlier. Therein Douglas says the following:
We haven’t gotten a serious legal threat so far. Well, a couple of minor ones, but we’re still waiting for a good solid cease-and-desist and a good lawsuit. We’re really trying to get News Corp. to sue us.
They tried to stop the publication of some article [ed: originally intended for publication by someone else] calling MySpace a spam factory…. since News Corp went to such lengths to stop the original publisher from publishing the article, we were hoping that if I actually published it on Valleywag, we could finally get sued. (Sighs) It didn’t happen yet. I’m really disappointed about that.
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