Skip TV Ads, Go to Jail?
The major television networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are arguing that skipping commercials while watching TV shows recorded on […]
Consumer advocacy
Skechers Pays $40 Million for Deceptively Advertising “Butt Toning” Shoes
Skechers, the maker of those roly-poly “toning shoes” that were a big craze back in 2010, will shell out $40
Is the Limbaugh Show on the Ropes in Missoula?
Twenty advertisers have now officially pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh’s show on KGVO talk radio in Missoula, Montana, and
CleanSlateNow: Medicine for America’s Broken Democracy
Throughout his 16 years in the Colorado state legislature, former Colorado Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon saw first-hand how corporate
The Bottled Water Scam
People who buy bottled water pay up to 1,900 times what tap water costs, but get less access to key
How Many Millionaires Pay a Higher Tax Rate than You?
The White House has posted a new online tool people can use to calculate how many millionaires pay a lower
Consumer advocacy, Food, Health
Campaign Urges Hospitals to Evict McDonalds Restaurants
Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a group that challenges corporate abuses, posted an open letter on its website asking hospitals that
DirecTV’s Disappearing-Channels Scam
Thinking of subscribing to DirecTV? Think again. DirecTV pulls a fast one on subscribers to push them into more expensive