Consumerist Editor Ben Popken will be on Fox Business News Monday at 12 noon to discuss the changes in store for FICO 08. UPDATE: It looks like our video slave is home today, so if anyone wants to DVR Ben's appearance and email the video file to tips@consumerist.com, we'll like, make you a cake or something.
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@AT203: Killjoy
Offended. The battle cry of the ineffectual.
@AT203: rofl you can't be serious. its sad/scary that someone with your thoughts like that exist.
on another note, why the heck does consumerist load cache.gawker.com and why the heck does cache.gawker.com load sofa king slow?
My question is why Ben would be invited to talk about FICO scores. Why not someone from, oh, I don't know, Fair Isaac Corporation or even Equifax, Experian, or Transunion? Why not someone from Chase or Citigroup? Why not a major credit card issuer like Capital One or Discover? What about Wells Fargo or Washington Mutual or someone who grants credit for mortgages, etc.? Really, why not our dear friend Elizabeth Warren?
It just sounds like they had to pass up a lot of people that are actually in the industry or have a background with this to pass this topic on to the editor of Consumerist.com...
@nick2588: Faux News isn't known for employing experts.
Congratz Ben! Any exposure is good exposure. Just don't take that too literally.
remember ben; nothing but a sock on...nothing but a sock
Damn, I meant to respond to Chili_Dog in my first @.
foxnews is excluding ron paul from the next debate
Did he get bumped? It's 12:07 and still no Ben....
AT203's posting history reminds me of that character on SNL that (forgot the same) that always said negative things no matter what the conversation. Downer someone, or something to that effect...?
12:18 Still no Ben...I give up
OKAY...it came on at 12:30, my phone rang, by the time I was able to hang up, I heard the "Thank you" to Ben for coming on :'''(
Conveniently DVR broken and new one coming tomorrow.
I got pushed back to 12:25ish.
Why would the Fox Business Channel want to hear the consumer side of things? Aren't we consumers the people who cause poor poor businesses all these problems?
@tadowguy: That's right. If all you pesky consumers could just have more money, we wouldn't even need this FICO score crap! :-p
I'm pretty offended that Ben would contribute to the startup of the Fox News Business network. I think it is pretty likely that we will see Fox Business follow the path of Fox News. In the business news context, that will mean carrying water for anti-consumer business interests.
I know it is flattering to be invited onto TV, but Fox Business is a startup and they are desperate to fill up their time. It is not a big of an honor as you think it is.
Sorry for the harsh criticism, but we have Newscorp largely to blame for the sorry state of public discourse and the balance of power in America today.