{"id":519374,"date":"2010-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004232"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:22:27","slug":"wcia-media-coverage-coming-fast-and-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519374","title":{"rendered":"WCIA Media Coverage Coming Fast And Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/wciacoverage-thumb-165x119-39018.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The competition for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&#038;tag=worst%20company%20in%20america&#038;limit=20\">Worst Company in America contest<\/a> is heating up, and so is the media coverage of our <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-round-2-bracket.html\">reader-driven bracket<\/a>. We were on the early morning show on ABC on Monday and other outlets are taking notice of WCIA as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/shop-talk\/2010\/04\/06\/check-out-line-duke-wins-but-theres-another-bracket-to-fill\/\">Reuters<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/25\/consumerist-launches-5th_n_513695.html\">Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradio.org\/columns\/marketplace\/scratchpad\/\">Marketplace<\/a>, on American Public Media<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/money.blogs.time.com\/2010\/03\/25\/the-big-dance-for-bad-companies\/\">TIME<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/03\/24\/consumerist-solicits.html\">BoingBoing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wivb.com\/dpp\/money\/Vote-for-Worst-Company-in-America\">WIVB<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/consumer\/89907552.html\">KOMO<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=%22http:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/local\/story\/Vote-For-The-Worst-Company-In-%3cbr \/><br \/>\nAmerica\/mdyiKHUh8EekSqNTaal0vA.cspx&#8221;>WCPO<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasnow.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12242523\">KLAS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walletpop.com\">Walletpop<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=%22http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/atlanta-bargain-hunter\/2010\/03\/26\/march-madness-%3cbr \/><br \/>\nbracket-worst-company-in-america\/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_bargain_hunter&#8221;>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sddt.com\/News\/article.cfm?SourceCode=20100326tqe\">San Diego Source<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareliberal.net\/2010\/03\/26\/more-march-madness-the-worst-company-in-america\/\">Delaware Liberal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ctwatchdog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/consumer-madness-vote-for-consumerist-worst-company-in-america-contest\">Connecticut Watchdog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/charlotte.bizjournals.com\/charlotte\/blog\/bank_notes\/2010\/03\/will_bank_of_america_advance_to_the_final_four.html\">Charlotte Business Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/stories\/2010\/03\/29\/daily1.html\">Triangle Business Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tvnooz.com\/2010\/04\/02\/sound-off-vote-for-the-worst-company-in-america\/\">TVNooz<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/march-madness-the-worst-companies-in-america\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">The Big Picture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/2010\/03\/25\/consumerist-counters-the-ncaa-with-its-own-worst-company-in-america-bracket\/\">GearDiary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onepennysheet.com\/2010\/03\/consumerist-launches-5th-annual-worst-company-in-america-contest\/\">One Penny Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too legit to quit. What&#8217;s next? Obviously, a campaign to get WCIA recognized as an official Olympic sport.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2010 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america\">consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-bracket.html\">Print the bracket, here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition for this year&#8217;s Worst Company in America contest is heating up, and so is the media coverage of our reader-driven bracket. We were on the early morning show on ABC on Monday and other outlets are taking notice of WCIA as well: Reuters Huffington Post Marketplace, on American Public Media TIME BoingBoing WIVB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}