Wall Street Journal furthers credit score urban legend

The sun never sets on the News Corporation empire.

From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:32 AM
To: Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO, News Corporation (via Julie Henderson)
Cc: Melissa Rudy; Jennifer Waters, columnist, Consumer Confidential, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, News Corporation; David Callaway, editor-in-chief, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corporation; Lex Fenwick, CEO, Dow Jones, News Corporation (via Bethany Sherman); Ashley Huston, senior director, Corporate Communications, Dow Jones & Company ; Corrections, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corporation; Alan Murray, executive editor, WSJ.com, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corporation
Subject: RE: credit score, utilization ratio, Consumer Confidential, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, correction IV, employers

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer
News Corporation

This is not going well.

In one place you corrected a story to say

It’s taken into account when you buy a house, a car or insurance, and when you seek credit for a small business, try to rent an apartment or get utility service.

But in another, uncorrected version, you published

It’s taken into account when you buy a house, car or insurance, or when you seek credit for a small business. Increasingly, your score can help you land—or lose out on—a job, rent an apartment or sign up for utilities.

Employers do not use credit scores.

You are out of control.  Please send out a memorandum to all affiliates before this happens again.  What changes will you make to your correction policy to ensure that it does not?  Do you have a policy?


Greg Fisher
The Credit Scoring Site
creditscoring.com
PO Box 342
Dayton, Ohio  45409-0342

 

 

From: Waters, Jennifer
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 6:54 PM
To: Callaway, David
Cc: greg@creditscoring.com; Henderson, Julie ( NewsCorp ); Melissa Rudy; Sherman, Bethany
Subject: Re: credit score, utilization ratio, Consumer Confidential, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, correction III, employers

Ok

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On Mar 5, 2012, at 5:49 PM, “Callaway, David” wrote:

I’ll take a look at this….Jen, give me and Anne a ring tomorrow………dave

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