Dot-com dogma'Some readers trying to find the article online may have been surprised by the political coverage there. The magazine does not own the domain name USWeekly.com which is a vehement anti-Obama site, featuring articles like "We’re Not Fooled Barack — Nor Will We Be." A representative from Us Weekly said that Wenner Media, which owns Us Weekly, had approached USWeekly.com when the magazine went weekly in 2000. Wenner did not succeed at buying the site then. The magazine has "no real recourse" since the USWeekly.com site seems to have been established before Us magazine changed its name to Us Weekly, said Mark G. McCreary, a partner at the law firm Fox Rothschild. It is unclear who owns USWeekly.com, but at least one person affiliated with the site had his own opinion on media coverage of the campaigns. In response to an e-mail inquiry, a response from someone using the name Richard Carroll — who is listed as an author on the site — said he did not own it. "We have nothing to discuss," he wrote, "other than for me to point out to you as I have other reporters who have written: Why the media blackout surrounding Barack Hussein Obama?"' (NYT).
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