CORPORATE MEDIA GIANT FIGHTS DIRTY: Ouch. This is rough:

More Blue Ball Three developments: Gannett Co. is appealing the unemployment benefits awarded to fired USA Today sports department staffer Karen Allen, who has found temporary work with the International Olympic Committee in Utah. We hear that last week, as the appeal was being filed, Allen had a wordless encounter in the Olympics press room with sports editor Monte Lorell, who had sacked her and two colleagues in December over minor damage they did to a spherical blue Lita Albuquerque sculpture at Gannett's Tysons Corner headquarters. Allen's attorney, Steve Hoffmann, told us yesterday: "To go after unemployment benefits -- that's a level of malevolence I don't often see." Our call to Gannett's media relations department was not returned.

(link via Lloyd Grove's Reliable Source, found at Romenesko)