“What there was was a complete lack of was a peer-to-peer dialog about illegally downloading music and why it was wrong.” No peer-to-peer dialog. None.
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Red Robin Spins Bullshit When Pressed To Reveal Nutritional Info
By 1.17.07
Red Robin doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating. The family restaurant has no nutritional information on its website, and when you ask for it, they tell you a whole bunch of PR nonsense.
ThisIsDumb: “Rome” Promotional Wine is From California
By 1.10.07
- Though intended to give diners an authentic taste of the show’s premise, the “Rome” wine was not shipped in from Italy; it was produced in California. HBO’s senior VP-consumer marketing, Courteney Monroe, was unable to secure an Italian wine vendor, but she doesn’t believe the promotion fails logistically.
Uh, right. —MEGHANN MARCO
“Sam’s Dream”: Walmart’s New Ad
By 1.8.07
Walmart knows you don’t like them, and they’re making ads in response. From ABC News: “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will run national television ads starting Monday praising its record as an employer and corporate citizen, taking its arguments straight to the public in an ongoing battle over its reputation with unions and other critics.”
ComEd Behind “Consumer” Group
By 1.5.07
From The Chicago Tribune: “We don’t need a California-style energy crisis in Illinois,” cautions a voice representing Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity.”
Walmart Wants You To Use Power-Saving Bulbs
By 1.2.07
Lest we remind you, compact fluorescent bulbs “use 75 percent less electricity, last 10 times longer, produce 450 pounds fewer greenhouse gases from power plants and save consumers $30 over the life of each bulb.” If Walmart is successful, they’ll save Americans $3 billion in electricity costs and avoid the need to build additional power plants for the equivalent of 450,000 new homes. Yikes. —MEGHANN MARCO
Super Exciting News: Governor of Pennsylvania Eats At A Taco Bell
By 1.2.07
“Maybe,” thought the governor and the governor alone, “I should get eat some Taco Bell, on TV, with the curiously Australian president of Taco Bell, Greg Creed.”
Ask The Fray: What’s The Legal Definition of ‘Subscribe?’
By 12.21.06
In the correction Cingular offered on our, “Break Your Cingular Contract Without Fee, Thanks 2 Txt Msg $ Raise” post, Cingular contends that text-messaging is not a service that users “subscribe” to.
EXCLUSIVE: Costco To Make Return Policy Stricter?
By 12.9.06
Costco is making its liberal return policies stricter, according to a little birdy. Previously, you could return anything, except computers, at anytime, with or without a receipt.
Designer Of Walmart’s Nazi Shirt Found. He’s Jewish.
By 12.6.06
The Miami Herald found the designer of Walmart’s Nazi tshirts, a man of Jewish persuasion. [More]
Walmart Nazi Shirt Watch: Day 19
By 11.28.06
19 days after a blogger first discovered Walmart selling shirts with Nazi insignia, the shirts can still be found on the shelves, this time in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. John writes:
Why Net Neutrality Is Bad
By 11.14.06
Voluminous pixels are spilt in defense of Net Neutrality, the premise that ISP’s shouldn’t be allowed to throttle, toll-house, or block access to certain sites because the ISP finds it financially beneficial to do so (e.g. Verizon creates its own videosharing site and blocks YouTube).
Geek Squad City Unveiled, With Fabio
By 11.2.06
This is a Multivu PR newsreel about the unveiling of Best Buy’s Geek Squad new central headquarters. Geek Squad City sounds awesome. By all appearances, the video is an upload of the footage supplied to TV news stations that helps them from having to do any reporting of their own.
