Funambulism » liars http://funambulism.com The remnants of a burgeoning ego. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:43:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Benchmark Reviews – corporate shills? http://funambulism.com/2010/07/benchmark-reviews-corporate-shills/ http://funambulism.com/2010/07/benchmark-reviews-corporate-shills/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:35:28 +0000 Grill http://funambulism.com/?p=1515 To the tune of Paloma Faith – Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?

A Reputation-Destroying Chair

Whatever your experience of Stuart Campbell, owner of World of Stuart, everyone agrees he’s a tireless campaigner for accuracy, honesty and justice in journalism and blogging. About three days ago he started investigating a seemingly minor infringement, the too-glowing review of an expensive office chair by Olin Coles, executive Editor of Benchmark Reviews (270,000 monthly unique users being misled there.)

The issue was that the chair seemed to have been reviewed by lifting ad-copy from a second site Smart Furniture and [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2010/07/benchmark-reviews-corporate-shills/feed/ 5