Monday, July 23, 2012

Adult Diapers, Stealing Content and PR Newswire Executives

While the 10Q Detective cannot confirm the veracity of this claim, we can tell you that PR Newswire continues to pirate our articles without compensation. If this article snakes through the ethers of the Internet and magically appears as a 10Q Detective story under the PR Newswire URL -- in effect, "stealing" traffic, well -- to you folks over at the parent company, FinancialContent Services, Inc. -- the quality of "your" news is about as good as the premium paid for it: nothing!

Chief executive, Wing Yu, who likes to boast that "FinancialContent is the trusted provider of stock market information to the media industry," could not be reached for comment. Does the media message of "trusted provider" imply veracity in the alleged diaper fetishes of his staff?

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Entertainment Weekly's KILLER Headline


In light of the massacre during a midnight showing of the film, "The Dark Knight Rises," at a Colorado movie theater that left 12 dead and scores injured, the editorial staff at Entertainment Weekly (a Time Warner-owned publication) is probably wishing it could re-edit its KILLER headline.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Denver Post: Another Example of "LAZY" Journalism

 The Denver Post prides itself on commanding one of Colorado's largest media footprints, hosting 5.2 million unique monthly visitors and more than 1.1 million Sunday readers of their print issue. Too bad they have TO STEAL to fuel their need for content. To wit: Best Buy No Longer for ex-CEO Dunn. I'll take that front page apology whenever you're ready - and this shout-out goes out to you folks over at PR Newswire too -- "Hey, assholes, I never gave you "permission" to "borrow" my research!"

- David J Phillips, Editor