First Posted: 08- 7-09 10:35 AM | Updated: 08- 7-09 10:40 AM
Conservative columnist 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
See the complete story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/ben-stein-loses-new-york_n_253855.html
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