William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-13-15
The Egyptians drank a lot of beer. The first recorded strike in history occurred when ancient Egyptian tomb workers failed to receive their beer rations.
Day: August 13, 2015
Yelp Billion Dollar Bully
A crowdfunded documentary depicting the consumer review site Yelp as a “billion dollar bully” is causing angst among the hipsters.
Yelp is a San Francisco-based firm founded in 2004 that allows customers to post online reviews of restaurants and businesses.
It’s hip, supports Obama, and is used and trusted by millennials. The problem is that it makes its obscene profits selling ads. The documentary claims that it withholds good reviews from businesses that don’t advertise while giving the bad reviews high exposure.
In other news regarding hypocrisy, the hipster news site BuzzFeed is being accused of running favorable stories regarding the Marriott hotel chain, which is a big advertiser.
of Brietbart.com notes that BuzzFeed has been unremittingly hard on Donald Trump whose hotels compete with Marriott. We kind of think that might be stretching the point. How is BuzzFeed any different than Fox News in that regard?
Still Howley points out that BuzzFeed also pulled a piece criticizing the Monopoly board game, which is produced by BuzzFeed advertiser Hasbro, and also pulled an article that criticized ads for Dove soap, the subsidiary of a site advertiser.
The anti-corporate types sure seem to like corporate money.
Anyway, here is the trailer to Billion Dollar Bully:
Yelp Billion Dollar Bully