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Pet insurer Trupanion blocks The Canine Review, censoring hundreds of actively subscribed employees

America’s second largest provider of pet insurance, Seattle-based Trupanion, confirmed earlier this week that the company is now blocking The Canine Review’s domain name. Many academic and company servers filter pornographic content and, of course, there are other historic examples such as Instant Messenger, the messaging application, and online games such as Snood; all were regularly blocked by company and academic servers. But no other U.S.-based company we’re aware of has ever blocked a news organization.

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USA Today ambushes Seresto again with dubious story, failing to seek comment

After USA Today reported, falsely, that Elanco had covered up adverse event reports and withheld them from regulators, rather than issue a correction, Mr. Hettinger and USA Today simply deleted the story’s most significant paragraph. In fact, there was even a “Why This Story Matters” graphic, also removed.

It was an egregious enough violation of the company’s own corrections policy to warrant an FYI to Newsguard, a fact-checking company. Fortunately for Gannett, this reporter’s father is Newsguard’s co-CEO- -and because of that, Newsguard determined that the risk for perception of conflict outweighed the need for them to downgrade Gannett’s rating, at least for now. However, TCR’s reporting shows what now amounts to more than two years of egregious violations of the most basic journalism standards. Note: This is a great newstip for a media reporter.

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TCR challenge to FDA blackout of DCM intensifies with help from top lawyer. UPDATED

During the same week in which the FDA told The Canine Review that the agency would need 3-4 months to respond to our appeal of its first denial (now, there are two appeals going on three) of our request for expedited processing, America’s veterinary profession’s main trade group, the AVMA, sent a grossly inaccurate story to tens of thousands of animal health professionals, declaring that the matter of diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs was effectively closed. 

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Lemonade announces buzzy alliance with Chewy–Trupanion’s original partner

“The moment that [Chewy] would offer another insurance carrier, we could talk to other pet retailers,” Rawlings told TCR, declining to name companies, although he did note that Trupanion “turned down Walmart.”

“We didn’t think that Walmart could help grow the category,” Rawlings added. Trupanion’s point of view, he says, is that ‘Chewy was going to come to the marketplace no matter what,’ describing Chewy as if he were describing stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

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