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Credit scores in popular culture, Identity Thief

The efficacy of a social media message Craig Mazin, story, screenplay Identity Thief Sumner Redstone CBS, National Amusements Recently, in Philadelphia, CBS broadcast a report that stated, inaccurately, that employers use credit scores.  After I contacted CBS, the inaccurate information on the broadcaster’s website disappeared, with no acknowledgement of the error on the story’s website … Continue reading Credit scores in popular culture, Identity Thief

Accuracy, transparency and integrity

[ORIGINAL MESSAGE TO AUTHOR, PUBLISHED January 12, 2013] From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:44 AM To: Manisha Thakor Subject: Adams Media, F+W Media See this message and your response at https://blog.creditscoring.com/?p=4523. In your book “On My Own Two Feet” (2007), you wrote, “Increasingly, prospective employers are also looking at this three-digit … Continue reading Accuracy, transparency and integrity

Colorado SB13-018

Employers do not use credit scores.  They cannot even get them. However, the website of Colorado State Senate Majority Leader Morgan Carroll states, as part of her first priority for the 2013 legislative session, “Efforts to ‘Buy Local’ will strengthen our local economy and addressing the misuse of credit scores in hiring practices will help many unemployed people … Continue reading Colorado SB13-018

Adjust the start and end times of videos in a YouTube playlist

Video website YouTube now has an advanced feature that enables users to create playlists that do not play entire videos.  You can configure the in and out points of videos that you include in a playlist, and leave the other parts out. In other words, a viewer can watch a sequence of segments of separate videos without doing anything, … Continue reading Adjust the start and end times of videos in a YouTube playlist

Acknowledgement

Here is a list of steps to attempt to get the attention of people who misinform citizens. 1. Email 2. Social media message 3. Postcard 4. Letter 5. Certified letter, return reciept requested 6. Visit, in-person, whistle stop Further steps (if necessary) might include cash, merciless berating and singing telegrams. From: Greg Fisher [mailto:greg@creditscoring.com] Sent: … Continue reading Acknowledgement

Adams Media, F+W Media book

Last Christmas, a broadsheet named the New York Times published an item about people using credit scores in dating.  In it was the claim, “The credit score, once a little-known metric derived from a complex formula that incorporates outstanding debt and payment histories, has become an increasingly important number used to bestow credit, determine housing and even distinguish between … Continue reading Adams Media, F+W Media book