
What we like most about red eyes: The Bliss Spa pack that JetBlue offers on those late night flights. What we like least: Every media property that adopts the name stinks worse than Dov Charney's drawls. So it's only natural that two of those media properties – the Chicago Tribune's daily freebie RedEye and Greg Gutfeld's late-night Red Eye show on Fox News – are clashing over the name.
Tribune is claiming copyright infringement and has scored a Feb. 26 court date. They're seeking a name change to Gutfeld's show, plus damages, given that FNC's Red Eye supposedly mimics the content in the giveaway newspaper. You know, since both happen to talk about very niche topics … like Anna Nicole Smith and the Oscars.
"Viewers are likely to assume Fox and the RedEye products owned by Tribune are collaborating, thereby causing confusion," the publishing company's suit, filed Wednesday, claimed.
And they might have a point. If Tribune Co. would have us testify, we're pretty damn sure we could convince a judge that it's easy to confuse a print product with a late night TV show when they're both steaming piles of crap.
Did you really have to show the picture?
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