Our travel blogger, Denis Horgan, former Courant editor and columnist, wrote a stinging column in his blog today critical of our old bosses for running stories by two people without disclosing their obvious conflicts of…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s investigation into consumer complaints that Sleepy’s delivered used mattresses instead of new ones has expanded to include allegations from 25 customers that they were sold mattresses that had bedbugs. Sleepy’s adamantly denies…
The giant hoax perpetrated on the world and the media by a greedy and stupid Colorado father is causing a firestorm of backlash against the media. It shouldn’t. Colorado parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, are…
A Norwalk-based photo agency that pressured customers into buying high-cost photo packages of their children in hopes of landing a modeling or acting career has signed a written legal agreement to adhere to all state laws in the operation of its business, Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said today.
Radio-info.com’s Sean Ross reports that Michael Jackson’s new single “This is It” isn’t it on a lot of radio stations. The song, which I figured to be an international hit, based on the response to…
Check here to download songs from his soon-to-be released album. Here at the watchdog, we give you the best deals! Waits and his label, Anti, are letting fans have seven of the 17 songs to…
Dave Lieber, the award-winning national consumer columnist from Texas, is joining our blogging team.
This brilliant article in the New York Times shows why we need a government that will watch over corporations that care more about dollars than people’s health. Why we need journalists to report such things…
I’ve seen the Craigslist ads and assumed they were bogus. Wrong. Google is hiring people to work at home and evaluate search. This story is the most in-depth explanation of how Google looks at search…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced a landmark $25.1 million agreement with drug maker Eli Lilly and Company for allegedly marketing its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses, and concealing the drug’s serious side effects, for more than a decade.
Blumenthal sued Eli Lilly last year for corrupting physicians, pharmacies and administrators at nursing homes and youth detention centers as part of a massive illegal marketing campaign to promote Zyprexa for unapproved off-label uses, including for the treatment of children.
As promised, New Haven attorney Joseph Garrison has filed my wrongful termination lawsuit against The Courant, accusing the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper of violating its written News Mission, or what I call its ethics policy, when it fired me last month for refusing to “be nice” to major advertisers.
(In response to loyal reader Kevin’s request) As a media critic, I’m astounded by the way both sides of the U.S. political landscape pick up and put down arguments they were passionate about when they…
Facing expulsion, five major Better Business Bureau chapters adopted the controversial A to F letter ratings for businesses, which has come under attack from consumer advocates and some businesses. New York City, metropolitan Houston, Nebraska/South Dakota,…
Here’s another sign of the rude? or just plain audacious times. These women will go to a business you are angry at and spread the word. Read this fascinating LA Times story. Is this the…
Concert promoter Live Nation will let fans buy a $50 now that will allow them into shows through the end of the year. That is an incredible deal, although with some small print. Sold out…
The FCC just completed an auction for radio signals, which totaled only $5 million for 122 possible stations (37 weren’t taken). This is down from the $25 million the government got in 2007 for 111…
Here’s a nifty satire that was posted moments after Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s thank you speech at the Video Music Awards Sunday. Kanye was as rude as South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson. Watch it…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that Sleepy’s has failed to provide him answers to all his critical questions regarding the giant mattress retailer’s business practices. Blumenthal, who in July began an investigation into…
Everyday I lose more faith in government. I mean, I knew in the back of my mind that most of these people were liars, thieves and cheats, but I still had a solid tinge of…
On the subject of newspapers chewing their own legs off, the Hartford Courant, is in the process of doing just that these days, first having stumbled into a plagiarism scandal, now by issuing opaque statements while disciplining employees for poorly executing a policy that was bad to begin with.
Connecticut news circles have been in a tizzy the last couple weeks after the Journal Inquirer, the Courant’s archrival, published accusations that the Tribune Company’s Hartford outlet was lifting local coverage of the JI and other Connecticut papers without their permission.