As the chairman and CEO of AOL, Tim Armstrong (who, actually, thinks he is Donald Trump) is in charge of a lot of stuff. Sometime between June, 2011 and today, he rejiggered it, and created a dead link in the process. How does he expect anybody to keep track of his errors? Here are some more. He … Continue reading AOL’s false information under a new name
Further investigation into the efficacy of a social media message From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 7:37 AM To: Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO, News Corporation (via Julie Henderson) Cc: Andrew Housser, co-founder & CEO, Bills.com; Michael Lewis, VP/general manager, KTBC FOX 7, Austin, News Corporation; Danielle Douglas, reporter, Washington Post Subject: … Continue reading Open letter to Murdoch: 5-year credit score nightmare
[PREVIOUS EMAIL] From: Gilbert, Dan Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 10:53 AM To: Quilty, David; Albery, Todd Cc: ‘greg@creditscoring.com’ Subject: Fw: Your horrible, recurring errors Todd and David, I truly cannot follow this guy’s point below. Maybe it got lost through all of the bitterness and anger in his email, but as always, I know … Continue reading Encounter with billionaire about credit score myth
Da nooz of da day A wild ride down a rabbit hole in New Jersey, the expert meets the dean of dating disasters and that (you know what). Jersey nj.com (aka the Star-Ledger) publishes a letter from a reader, one “Harry in Basking Ridge,” who says he has a credit score that would be outrageously high on one score’s … Continue reading Daily slog o’ da blog: What credit score are you talking about?
Here is a trail of woe; a massive mess of misidentification and misinformation by mainstream media muckety-mucks. Following a complaint about several errors to the managing editor of the Deseret News, the newspaper with the second-highest gain in audience in the country, made one correction. But the other four errors remain. One, a syndicated error by the New York … Continue reading LA Times’ uncorrected errors and bad reporting
[PREVIOUS MESSAGES] From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@pagea2.com] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 9:47 PM To: Thomas S. Monson, president, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (via L. Kirkland); Henry B. Eyring, first counselor, First Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor, First Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … Continue reading David Brooks’ political fantasy spreads to Utah
From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 2:49 PM To: Liz Forgan, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and chairwoman, Scott Trust [Guardian]; Corrections, The Guardian; Paul Mason, economics editor, Newsnight, BBC; Paul Mason, economics editor, Newsnight, BBC (address 2); Alan Rusbridger, editor, Guardian (media@guardian.co.uk) Cc: Stephen Herzenberg, executive director, … Continue reading The Guardian accuracy, standards, errors, corrections and clarifications
The efficacy of a social media message Lena Taylor Senator (D-Milwaukee), Wisconsin legislature Employers do not use credit scores because they cannot even get them. However, you wrote, “Approximately 40% of employers check credit scores when making hiring decisions.” So, your information is false. Who provided that statistic? — Greg Fisher The Credit Scoring Site … Continue reading False information on government website
A further test of the efficacy of a social media message “Our house is on fire.” – Scott Pelly, anchor and managing editor, CBS Evening News Sumner Redstone KYW-TV, FCC License File Number: BLCDT-20090326ABH CBS Broadcasting Inc. National Amusements Norwood, Massachusetts You continue to misinform citizens, and I am not going to tolerate it. Stop … Continue reading What lies beneath
From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 1:02 PM To: Rick Levinson, blogger, Ventured&Gained, Bloomberg News Cc: Meghan Womack, press contact, Bloomberg News Subject: credit score, employers, edit it See this message and your response at https://blog.creditscoring.com/?p=5070. Employers do not use credit scores because they cannot even get them. However, this week, in … Continue reading Bloomberg News personal finance blog Ventured&Gained