Whispers and Warnings

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Whispers and Warnings For November 23rd

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  • Xlibris / Xlibris.com - SPAMMERS. Has spammed Angela 6 times this year alone! Two authors also report being spammed by them this week. Emails sent requesting removal are ignored.
  • Google Print - Why Random House won't let them do it!
  • Conrad Black - federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed criminal fraud charges against this former newspaper tycoon
  • Former Maclean's editor - Conrad Black uses magazine's party to serve defamation lawsuit.
  • AT&T - Bay Directories (phone book publishers) owner Ron Andrews scores one for the little guy!

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Whispers and Warnings For September 28th

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Whispers and Warnings For August 31st

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Whispers and Warnings For July 27th

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Whispers and Warnings For June 29th

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Whispers and Warnings For June 22nd

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  • Rocky Mountain News - Settles racial Harassment suit
  • Indianapolis Star - Rejects Religious Discrimination Charges
  • Newsday - Three former circulation executives charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for a variety of schemes, including use of a shell company, to pump up the papers' circulation at the expense of advertisers, in some instances by as many as 100,000 copies a day, or 20 percent.
  • UK newspaper Sunday Times - settles libel case brought by Saudi businessman
  • The Day / theday.com - Apologizes to successful student's mother after making a generalization about kids with "cruddy home lives."
  • Vancouver Sun - Sued by Tony Robbins for libel
  • McGraw-Hill Companies - Feds trying to convince this publisher to turn over data that one of its publications collected from a natural gas company under investigation.
  • The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Ran a lengthy apology Sunday after a local religious ministry complained about errors in recent article.

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Whispers and Warnings For April 27th

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  • Foetry.com - Owner closes site after his identify is revealed...and then reopens. Rebuttal to that article appears here.
  • The Baltimore Sun - Governor's office says review of paper's alleged errors, distortions was inadequate, lackluster.
  • American Media and Sylvester Stallone - sued by Sly Magazine LLC for trademark infringement (see third paragraph)
  • The Source, a hip-hop magazine - Sources say pub is experiencing financial, advertising and circulation woes in the wake of sexual harassment lawsuit.
  • Cruces Sun-News - Judge refuses to stop publication of article despite magistrate's objections.
  • e-syndicate.net - Really interesting scenario happening here!