New York Times gives Ben Stein red eye, drops his Sunday column

gatorboy

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Fri Aug-07-09 02:47 PM
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New York Times gives Ben Stein red eye, drops his Sunday column

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/ben-stein-loses-new-york_n_253855.html

Ben Stein has lost his Sunday New York Times column over his appearance in commercials for FreeScore.com, a company Reuters' Felix Salmon described as "a sleazy company which exists only to extract large sums of money from those who can least afford it." The company offers customers a free credit score but charges them substantially to actually review their credit report.

NYT spokesperson Catherine Mathis released the following statement to Gawker:

Ben Stein's fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company

Last month, Salmon advocated for Stein's firing from the New York Times on the basis of his endorsement of FreeScore.com:

The level to which Stein has now sunk is more than enough reason -- as if the case for the prosecution weren't damning enough already -- for the NYT to cancel Stein's contract forthwith. It's simply unconscionable for a newspaper of record to employ as its "Everybody's Business" columnist someone who is surely making a vast amount of money by luring the unsuspecting into overpaying for a financial product they should under no circumstances buy.

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tabasco

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Fri Aug-07-09 02:56 PM
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1. What a joke the Screw York Crimes is

to have someone like Stein on their payroll in the first place.

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tularetom

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Fri Aug-07-09 03:07 PM
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2. Does anyone feel any sympathy for Ben Stein?

Anyone?

Bueller?

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rhett o rick

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Fri Aug-07-09 03:17 PM
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3. Anyone, anyone, nope not even Bueller. Good bye Ben what's your name. nm

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bahrbearian

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Fri Aug-07-09 03:27 PM
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5. Maybe Shaq ?

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ColbertWatcher

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Fri Aug-07-09 03:21 PM
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4. LOL! Why the hell did they give him a column in the first place!? n/t

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Vidar

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Fri Aug-07-09 03:29 PM
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6. Good riddance.

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