If you’re a news editor you’ll want to hear this.

The New York Stock Exchange now claims that you have to get their permission (express or implicit) before you use images connected to the New York Stock Exchange. So if you find a wire photo of the trading floor and use it to illustrate a story on Wall Street, you’re violating the NYSE’s trademark because they’ve trademarked the trading floor itself.

We found this out yesterday when we got a cease and desist letter from the NYSE based on an article published at TPM back in November. You can see the letter here. Read More

John Boehner (R-OH) made his first comments this morning on the GOP loss in New York’s 26th district on Tuesday. Boehner attributed the loss to the third party candidate in the race and a bad campaign by Republican Jane Corwin with a “small part” of the loss “clearly had to do with Medicare.”