Blue Oval News is an independent web site devoted to news, commentary, and speculation about Ford Motor Company. It was started in 1998 by Warner Robert, who was involved in a high profile lawsuit following his posting of information from Ford internal documents on the web.
In July 1999, Blue Oval News posted an article stating that the 1999 Mustang Cobra generates less power than advertised. This article was based on Ford internal documents. Ford asked that this article be removed from circulation, a request refused by the publisher of Blue Oval News. Subsequently, in August 1999, Ford filed suit against Blue Oval News in U.S. Federal court claiming illegal dissemination of trade secrets and copyright infringement. On 7 September 1999, Judge Nancy Edmunds ruled in favor of Blue Oval News on the basis of First Amendment rights to free speech.
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“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal their eggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,—it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)