Talk:Consumers' Research

anti-communist stance

"It's magazine increasingly took an anti-communist stance, and is today closely aligned with conservative politics. It has been accused of publishing favorable reports about the tobacco industry funded by that industry."

It's difficult to determine in the context whether this quote is intended to apply to Consumer's Union or Consumer Research. Which is it?

Also, "It's" should be "Its". 32.97.110.142 20:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Sitewatch article continues to be deleted

I added back:

• "Consumers' Research". sourcewatch.org. Retrieved 2007-12-05.

Trav (talk) 16:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Magazine title & its rating system

When I was young the rivalry between the Consumers Union and their old bosses at Consumers' Research was still pretty hot. However, even if the name of CR's magazine was technically Consumers' Research Bulletin, I remember it being marketed as simply Consumer Bulletin. Is this really correct? Also, I think that their rating categories of "A" "B" and "C" should be mentioned and contrasted with Consumer Reports contemporary "Check-rated", "Acceptable" and "Not Acceptable". 72.105.77.92 (talk) 14:42, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I work for Consumer Reports and added a lot of the information to this article. Thanks for what you did recently. I learned about Consumers' Research in the books I cited when I was reading about my own organization, but I do not think I have other sources at hand. Whatever I wrote here is from the sources cited or labeled "citation needed", and if more information is added, it is supposed to be followed with a citation to some published source. I do not have a source which talks about the Bulletin or even about their ratings system. I am not even sure if I have a source about Consumer Reports' rating system.

I cannot say whether anything here is correct because I know very little about this organization and had trouble finding any records about it. I am surprised to hear that the rivalry between the two organizations was ever very hot; I had the idea that Consumers' Research mostly folded after the split in the 1930s, but that could be just because I have not found any documents talking about their work. I live in New York and searched the New York Public Library for papers and articles and do not recall finding anything, and am not aware of any historical review of the organization.

I appreciate your coming to this article. I find the history of these organizations fascinating and I wish it could be recorded well on Wikipedia before it is all lost and forgotten. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:01, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Ad regarding Levi's

Right wing Ad regarding Levi's paid for by Consumers Research : wokewashedlevis.com 2601:645:200:BA9:D8E0:868D:D2F5:63A1 (talk) 13:24, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Major update needed

Per The Washington Post, this organization is no longer the one that it began as. It was first majorly altered in 1981 after M. Stanton Evans became lead editor and removed product assessments and the entire "Consumer Research" subject matter of the group. And then further changed in 2020 where it became an openly political advocacy group decrying anything it deemed liberal or "woke". This aspect is briefly mentioned in the current article, but not in the proper broader context and without the previous history, considering the current article only covers up through the 1930's. A major overhaul of this article is needed and I'm going to be tagging it with the needed issues after making this thread. Silverseren^C 01:27, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

@Silver seren I've added some post-1980s detail about the sale of the organization and its activities since 2020. The article still needs an updated lead section and could use some paring or condensing of the early history. More could be added about the organization's recent activities as well. The current incarnation of Consumers' Research seems to be entirely distinct from that of the 1930s. gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)