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Daily Intelligencer:
In the fifties, a bunch of rock stations got caught taking money from music producers to give their artists airtime. The "Payola" scam, as it was called, was sufficiently outrageous to become a major national scandal. Last month, Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple reported that Politico's Mike Allen is running a similar scam accepting lucrative payments from advertisers and lending his editorial voice to hyping, and sometimes parroting, their agenda. Given the relative importance of national politics vis-à-vis rock music, this struck me as a potentially career-ending revelation. Instead, Politico has ignored the report and carried on as if nothing at all were amiss.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/politico-stonewalls-mike-allen-payola-scandal.html
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)the relationship is even more incestuous (or masturbatory) like Glenn Beck & his gold scam.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Websites are the new rock stations
WillyT
(72,631 posts)UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)carrying the fuck on like it didn't happen.
Good to know.. thanks Cat.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)[center]''The system isn't broken. The system is fixed.''[/center]
- Once you start from there, it begins to make more sense how we got this fucked-up.
K&R
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ReRe
(10,597 posts)It is a Republican organization, no? What do Republicans normally do when they are caught with their hands in the cookie jar? Right. They don't resign or get held accountable. They just brush it under the rug and carry right on down the track. Everyone forgets in a couple days, no harm/no foul.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)but there haven't been any rules for about 20 years now.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Politico's Mike Allen is a shill
If that line goes viral, then maybe he will take a hit for what he's doing.