lwildernorva

Oh, the humanity!

lwildernorva

And then, when VFTW gets into my field, he really shows how he wants the facts to fit his narrative: http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....ngs-need-know/. It's a dissenting opinion where he finds his quotes, which is NOT the opinion of the court that decided the case. But, of course, it's not AA so ol' Gar feels free to bomb away.

No doubt UA wasn't given warm fuzzies by the majority (and kudos to Seth for communicating that subtlety that VFTW seems to miss), but courts generally couch language entering summary judgment in the most extreme terms possible since the legal standard for summary judgment requires accepting the plaintiff's best case as true, with no facts in dispute and all inferences that could be drawn from the facts resolved in the plaintiff's favor, in determining that the plaintiff has no chance of prevailing should the matter proceed to trial.

Maybe more legal analysis than you wanted this time of the year so Happy Holidays!

kokonutz

Gary basically admits in the comments that he wrote the article title as click bait.

rwinn

It looks like the title changed from "rules" to "says" ... still shows "rules" on boardingarea.com

kokonutz

Thing is, the story is interesting enough without having to click-bait/exaggerate.

It's click-baiting for the sake of click-baiting.

Astrophsx

Someone should start a blog called "View from the Screen" and just give a daily top 10 list of best posts of BA blog posts and then a top 10 click bait stories. Litter the page with ads and credit card referrals.

The new trend on BA is to not write your own content... in fact... to limit your post to 2 sentences and a link to an article. Someone should just turn the tables on them!

Canarsie

This might suffice somewhat — and you get to click on any of the articles you believe should move further up...

Astrophsx

How to Get Medical Coverage from Your Credit Card
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/...traveling.html

cruisr

Grrrrr. Why did I click the link. This one can also go under click bait.

SansSerif

ugh

When I wrote on AMEX's premium global assist, I explicitly warned that emergency medical transportation is not, and thus should not be considered, an alternative to real insurance. Because, well, it's not.

Ironically, despite the glowing overview of the benefit:

AMEX will NOT cover any of the hypothetical scenarios mentioned earlier on in the post:

This is different from "bad" advice in other blogs because it is downright dangerous advice. I'd hate to think of any readers relying on AMEX for immediate medical attention, or being unexpectedly hit with exorbitant hospital bills because they thought they were covered.

edit

And the referral link is to the platinum card. Seriously ....

freeloader

Wow.... That's dangerously bad. Much worse then their typically wrong advice on avios, etc

Makes me scared to see what advice they will be slinging at their road shows

84fiero

And all for the low price of $250 bucks to have it slung at you!

It doesn't appear that the Barclays benefits linked in the post provide anywhere near what the post implies it does, either.

Astrophsx

This is going off topic. The thread is about bloggers posting wrong or misleading advice. There is always going to be a group on Flyertalk critical of bloggers.. which is why they pushed these conversations to an "external miles" section. I would say a majority of readers have no clue these conversations even exist, hence why they get so upset when people point out wrong/misleading information, click bait, killing deals, or pushing links. I would think that out of the most popular bloggers that Ben posts the most accurate information. He may have his own style of writing and opinions, but I think in this thread we should focus in on the actual posting of wrong or misleading information.

eponymous_coward

I'd say much of this forum you're ambassador for is sad, then. The number of threads that go off into "I don't like this blogger's lifestyle because of reasons so I'll be snarky"... well, it's a leitmotif here.

farwest101

I find it a bit ludicrous to be criticizing a bunch of CC shills who masquerade as "experts" and pimp CC links all day long. They compete with banksters, commission-based financial advisors, lawyers and used car salesmen for the bottom of the ethical hierarchy.