Email Text Released

On Wednesday PutnamLIES. com broke the story of the unauthorized use of a copyrighted image in the "Hot Shots" section.
PutnamLIES.com correspondent Leonard Bernstein uncovered the blatant copyright violation and contacted the photographer whose rights were violated by Hallburn.
PutnamLIES.com excerpted that email in that story. Upon request of the reporter we are now releasing the entire email exchange.

From: Leonard Bernstein
Subject: photo use on website
To: Bernard Zee
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:22 PM
Hello,
I noticed one of your photos on a blog located here: http://putnamlive.com/HotShots2009BlueAngelsBernardZee.jpg
(from the main nav page you would go to the "hotshot" section.
(editor's note: Readers will have to cut and paste to see the above link as we will not link to the site.)Which appears to be http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/DSC_8128.jpg with your copyright cropped out. Just wondering if you were aware of this?
The owner of this blog tends to snag photos without credit, and seeing how your photos are for sale, I figured the least he would do is give credit for that great photo.
Thanks!
--
-Lenny-
From: Bernard Zee
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: photo use on website
To: Leonard Bernstein
Hi Lenny,
Thanks for letting me know about the picture. You're right in that I did not give them permission to use it (I would have, if they asked).
At least they credited me indirectly in the filename of the image.
I'm very honored that you recognized that picture! You've got a great eye for details!
Regards,
BZ


This picture didn't come from an image service.
If it was submitted by a reader, there was no due diligence to check if the reader owned the photo.
Halburn says he won't print a letter to the editor without a scan of the writer's driver's license.
But apparently he'll post any picture anyone sends him regardless of who owns it.

By the way, did you get a copy of Rick Ray's license for his letter or did you just copy the letter verbatim from the Herald Dispatch, Crisco?

Piracy like this is journalism at its absolute worst, practiced
by an immoral charlatan masquerading as a businessman.
He will stoop to the lowest, most vulgar, vile and disgusting
ploys to deceive the honest, hard-working citizen.
He is the lowest form of scum on the face of the earth.

Pussy Publisher Produces Piles of Purloined Pictures

I have zero credibility!
Over the course of the last few days, the investigative team at PutnamLIES.com has accused me of using other people's images. So I changed the one I stole.

But check this one out on my Hot Shots section.

Another Halburn Copyright Violation
This image belongs to Bernard Zee

This picture belongs to a photographer named Bernard Zee. It was taken in 2007 and I published it without his permission. Like some of the cartoons I published, his name was cropped out of the picture.
Mr. Zee writes: "I did not give them permission to use it (I would have, if they asked). At least they credited me indirectly in the filename of the image."

Hot Shots is a reader submitted section. Read the disclaimer.
It just says the submitter allows me to publish the picture without compensation. It doesn't say they had to actually have taken the picture.
I don't need permission anyway. I'M MARK HALBURN, GODDAMMIT!!!

So then I decided I'd go back and poke around the archives.

Guess what I found:
A bunch of images that appear on other peoples' sites.

Here are a few:

The Indian that designed this one probably wears Chinese shoes.

Nobody around here even watches WFRV. Who's going to know?

I hope this guy doesn't come after me. He's got a gun.

USA TODAY? Are they still in business?

These are only a few of the swiped images. There are a bunch more. I guess I'll have to go and change them and claim they never existed. Or maybe I'll claim that they stole them from me.
Anyway, I stick by my defense that this is a dead but sensational issue in a continued campaign to smear me.
Maybe I used to have a subscription to something or other. I can't really remember. The voices in my head are too loud.

It Takes A Thief

IN COLOR

I'm so desperate for original material for my shitty little "news" site I thought I'd start a feature to get people to send pictures in. I called it "See it, Shoot it, Send it" .

Then I stole an image from WRDW.com in Augusta, GA for use on my site.

The original

Or did I steal the image first and use the name after that? I can't remember.
It doesn't really matter though.

I'm sure WRDW paid good money for that image, but you know how much it cost me?
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
I really don't care.
Never have. Never will.
Fuck them. I'M MARK HALBURN, BITCHES!!!

The stolen image

I didn't do anything to the image but resize it a little. Their lawyers will never figure that one out.
If anyone says anything I'll just blame it on my imaginary consultant (like I'd ever take anyone's advice) or my hosting company. I'll just say they did it without my knowledge or permission. I may be forced to fire both of them.

This is just another one of the top flight ethical practices that readers and advertisers have come to expect from me and more proof that PutnamLíve.com is Putnam county's news loser.

Honestly, I don't know how an advertiser can look his customers in the face after advertising on my site.

UPDATE: Once again PutnamLIES.com forces an unethical publisher to do the right thing and discontinue using an image he knew he had no right to use. Halburn has removed the graphic and replaced it with another. Where did the new one come from?
We will continue to hold this slimy fuckstick's feet to the fire.UPDATE 2: The graphic continues to appear on the "Hot Shots" page". If he knew anything about writing web pages that would not happen.
1994 called, Mark. It wants its web pages back, you dumb fuck.

Mark Halburn IS Steve Bosell!

The other night I listened to the Phil Hendrie Show on the radio.
There's a character on his show named Steve Bosell. Steve is an overly sensitive guy that sues everybody at the drop of a hat.

Well, Hendrie's met his match. Halburn's going to sue Hendrie for basing the character on HIM.
Here's what I mean:
Bosell is from Southern California, Halburn's from Southern California. Bosell likes to sue people, Halburn likes to sue people. Halburn was on the radio, Phil Hendrie's on the radio.
Although he's now in the hotel business, even though all he really does is scrape the jizz off the sheets and look at internet porn and PutnamLIES.com while he's there.

Listen to how Steve bitches and moans. Listen to his sense of self-entitlement. Look at some of the lawsuits Bosell has filed. It's exactly what Halburn would do!
THAT'S HIM!!
How RUDE to base a character on HALBURN and not compensate him!! He's a continuing character! He's not getting a dime from this and it is clearly based on him! Somebody's going to PAY!

Listen to this example where Steve calls in:


Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Here's a couple more:
Lost Wallet - HALBURN  LOST MY WALLET TOO - TWICE!
"666" check
Now you tell me that Bosell's not based on him!

Halburn Admits Defeat - PutnumLive endorses PutnamLIES.com, Girlofwords and Cryptic Bullshit!

Desperate Publisher Uses Competitors' Names
In Keywords

In a stunning piece of Putnam County news, I admit that I
have had my ass kicked.

Last week PutnamLIES.com once again called attention to my unethical
practice of keyword stuffing.

Well, I'm at it again.
Only this time I'm using their own words against them.
HA! I'm a FUCKING GENIUS.An unnamed commenter has tipped PutnamLIES.com to my
latest display of assholery.

Look at these now:

"keywords" content="Putnam County News, women, eleanor,
buffalo, scott depot,culloden, midway, bancroft, poca,
winfield, cryptic, hurricane, santa claus, girls, Putnam,
news, girl of words, County, West Virginia, sports,
information,children, animals, Freedom, America, Liberty,
sun, travel, magic mart, pepsi, coke, masters, uno,
teays valley, hurricane, nitro, applebees, dodge, dakota,
layoff, workers, mary kay, nascar, SPORTS, CLOTHES,
KROGER, Cars, sheriff,crime, seniors, flu, shots,
pneumonia, hospital, ford, ginos, tudors, chevy, food,
pizza, rain, dog, cat, weather, snow, hot, cold, sheetz,
walmart, walgreens, dollar tree, stampers, camc, game stop,
rent a center, radio shack, putnam lies, lee, mark, mays,
blogspot"
Maybe if I included "I"", "and", "the", "Halburn" and "Hallburn",
I'd get more hits as well.
Leonard Bernstein claims that using words like these won't
help.
What does he know anyway? I don't tell him how to conduct
his orchestra, he shouldn't tell me how to run my site.
By using the above keywords, I acknowledge that the
people turning on the light in my cockroach-like existence
are right,that I AM an unethical scumbag and a sniveling piece of shit
and by piggybacking my site on their successes, maybe I can
get some traffic to my pathetic reprint site.
Maybe if I spent a fifth of the time I waste whining like
an old grandmother in actually writing my own articles, I
wouldn't have to be a leech and spam keywords to try and
get search hits.

I hope that people don't start contacting my advertisers
and letting them know what a fuckstick I am.It's a good thing that nobody's put together a list.
I'd hate for a Glenn Beck type boycott to be started against
me and my sponsors.

I guess this proves that Girl of Words, PutnamEYES.com,
and Cryptic Bullshit were right all along.

PutnumLIVE.com is Putnam county's news loser.

UPDATE: Halburn is such a scumbag that after his 9:56 AM
visit to PutnamLIES.com, he changed his keywords and
added "Leonard Bernstein".
I guess he forgot about that one.
And he just keeps on adding to them. He really is
batshit crazy.

Who Is Sal Marino?

Recently, over at Cryptic Bullshit, Lee posted a picture of his beautiful daughter, Ava.
Later someone, with an email address containing the name Sal Marino, left the following vile message there:
"That’s the fuckin ugliest baby I have even seen. did you get it from neverland ranch when they auctioned zoo babies?"

On September 8, that same person visited PutnamLIES.com by using the following search terms: "debra girimont putnam county wv."
Debra Girimont, is running as a Republican for some office in Putnam County.

Sal went directly to the story featuring Ms. Girimont, entitled My Bias Is Showing...Again.

Now I don't know who Sal Marino is, but someone either very interested in or associated with Debra Girimont is a disturbed racist.

The last thing Ms Girimont needs in this campaign are allegations that her supporters are bigots and racists.
Her association with Halburn already calls her judgment into question.

If you've been contacted by Sal Marino, or have any information as to his identity, please contact PutnamLIES.com immediately with the details.
Your safety may be at stake!

Fun With Google

Many thanks Lenny!