Dial "M" for Money

New Law Puts Police Telemarketing on Hold

"...that 62.5% of their contributions would go to the telemarketing concern of Garbarino & Johns and its phone staff,..."

Aug. 8, 1997 News Feature by Amy Smith

Sorry to Bother You

Sly sci-fi satire puts class, race, and selling out under the microscope

"...and unemployed. When his friend hips him to a telemarketing gig, the title of the film becomes apparent as..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Common Law

The National Do Not Call Registry

"...them, they can stop me from receiving any more telemarketing phone calls. Is this for real?..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Luke Ellis

The Hightower Report

Corporate Creeps Bilk the Elderly; and Al Qaeda Banks on Bush

"...hell being reserved for the participants in a recent telemarketing scheme to steal the life savings of old folks...."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

The Fraternal Order of Police is being accused of bad telemarketing again.

"...The Texas State Fraternal Order of Police is telemarketing again -- and complaints from the Dallas and Houston..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Welcome to Tomstown

In the burgeoning Tomstown scandal, you can't tell the players or the plot without a program

"...specific campaigns. So corporate cash paid for polling, fundraising, telemarketing, and salaries for Colyandro and others. More than $100,000..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

"Clean, Wholesome' Prison Labor

"...from the company's use of prison inmates to make telemarketing calls. According to TCRP Executive Director Jim Harrington, SandStar..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

American Job

"...Next he tries cleaning motel rooms, then on to telemarketing. We watch as Randy goes through the ropes of..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Election Ticker: Democracy, Dollars

Austinites for Progressive Reform, opposition PACs report campaign finances

"...outlay, $240,000, has gone to Victory Solutions, a GOP telemarketing firm whose principal, Shannon Burns, while bringing the 15-year-old..."

April 9, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

DVDanger: Tokyo Tribe

Sion Sono's deranged, delirious hip-hop musical rocks

"...on promotions to the vampires that work in his telemarketing firm. Office comedies are the ultimate sealed-bottle drama, and..."

Dec. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fran Kranz vs. the Bloodsucking Bastards

The Cabin in the Woods star returns to horror-comedy

"...Kranz plays Evan, an office drone in a telemarketing company with no gumption, and no career prospects. He's..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Dogg’s Honest Truth About Beatle Barkers

“It’s terrible, but it’s a good gimmick.”

"...created it. He owned Telmak, one of the largest telemarketing companies in Australia. He was a very rich person...."

July 21, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Rock and a Hard Place

Exploring the elusiveness of fame and the ethics of the mash-up in 24 Beats per Second

"...native Ontario in between shifts at catering companies and telemarketing firms. The story of why Anvil never made it..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Naked City

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature

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"...at KUT over the past few years, from KUT telemarketing for more money (using out-of-state companies no less), floods..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Column

What's Really Happening at KUT?

"...at KUT over the past few years, from KUT telemarketing for more money (using out-of-state companies no less), floods..."

Sept. 6, 2006 Postmarks

Bentzin's Bad Connection

District 48 candidate's acknowledgement that he hired political consultant John Colyandro to work on his Senate campaign in 2002 raises big legal questions

"...Colyandro, through TRMPAC, hired Contact America Inc., a California telemarketing firm with ties to DeLay, to identify GOP and..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

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"...response from Sylvia Carson stating that the income from telemarketing was vitally necessary...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column

Has KUT Lost Its Grasp?

"...response from Sylvia Carson stating that the income from telemarketing was vitally necessary. I truly feel that KUT has..."

Jan. 25, 2006 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

The NAM's mess; and a quiet victory over hucksterism

"...no longer ringing ceaselessly with a barrage of infuriating telemarketing solicitations, most of which came as you were sitting..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

When I'm 64

Veteran musicians retire to Austin

"...mentions Neil Flanz, 67. "For 16 years, I did telemarketing to pay the rent."..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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"...or "soft" money for political activities like fundraising, polling, telemarketing, "voter education," and similar functions. They say they were..."

March 19, 2004 Column

If an Attorney Is So Certain That Discussion Is Moot, Why Have Courts?

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"...restaurants and stores, various corporate-owned institutions, and (brace yourself) telemarketing for employment. We gave in to the dark side..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Column

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"...restaurants and stores, various corporate-owned institutions, and (brace yourself) telemarketing for employment. We gave in to the dark side..."

July 25, 2003 Column

Weed Watch

The draconian R.A.V.E. Act sneaks back into Congress, but reform advocates are pushing drug bills across the nation -- including in Texas

"...children, senior citizens, and rape victims, and would combat telemarketing fraud and identity theft. But RAVE wasn't hidden well..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Rolling Stones

Live Shot

"...explain SBC's mysterious fees) to a company whose incessant telemarketing has the stalker party vote for a congressional restraining..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Girls on the 50-Yard Line

Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.

"...and demeaning jobs." Moochie cleaned apartments, Jane did some telemarketing, another team member got a job changing oil. A..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The People vs. Mike Sheffield

The new APD oversight agreement is a first for Austin -- but will it do what it's supposed to do?

"...beat. He also made headlines when his FOP chapter's telemarketing campaign turned out to have a 70% overhead cost..."

March 30, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium

"...more mundane. We hear from a Wal-Mart greeter, a telemarketing group supervisor, an adhesives company sales representative, an art..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Review by Ann Guidry

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