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Also referenced by Gervais was the recent accusation by a former publicist for the organization that the HFPA had engaged in payola schemes in which nominations and red carpet placement could be bought.
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A PhD can get $ 500k / yr to parrot Exxon / Mobil's lines or $ 65k / yr to work at USGS or NOAA and the latter is taking payola for cashing his fat government paycheck?
In the first half of the speech he goes ad hominem, attacking opponents as «front groups» who take payola from «polluters» to «confuse» the public by selling «doubt» as their product.
And as for doing anything dirty or dishonest for money — such as payola, rigged TV shows, false advertising, corrupt business deals, political chicanery, etc. — their consciences are not for sale.
Whether it's taking payola from entertainment industry lobbyists and trying to destroy our basic constitutional rights, or spying on Americans just because it's too hard not to, or because there is an upcoming Presidential elections and both parties are constitutionally incapable of not trotting out the stupid during election years, something dumb is bound to happen that will get them internets up in arms and legitimately crying foul.
Because it was so popular, Pardo was inspired to create the crowdfunding campaign on Payola.
And, finally, the entire dissension - ridden affair was aggravated by a weird combination of interresort rivalry and Tyrolean payola.
I can understand why payola is ethically and legally wrong where an inferior product can be promoted at the expense of a superior product.
Fake product reviews — prompted by payola or more nefarious motives — are nothing new, but they are set to become a bigger problem as tricksters find new ways of automating online misinformation campaigns launched to sway public opinion.
Like The Sound of Music and Funny Girl, it's built on a tried and tested formula that, admittedly, hadn't been used in a while, but reliably hit payola for studios for years and years.
Payola needs to be called out as a leading consideration in this and similar reports.
A similar thing happened with payola in the radio business in the 80s.
Here are some real things to get worked up: preferential reviews for large publishers, Youtube payola, Apple store rating manipulations, and Steam Sales push prices down too low for some indie developers to stay viable.
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Some companies have been caught giving payola to Youtube streamers -LRB--RRB-.
The fossil fuel companies use «political payola» (bribes) to influence a majority in Congress to create and sustain pollution practices... while also sustaining inefficient, «dirty energy» policies that help optimize the profits of these corrupt, wealthy corporations.
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Way back when radio was the main channel for developing a hit, record labels tried to game the system by bribing radio station program directors with money and gifts to add a record to the station's playlist, a process that became known as payola.
Such diets have been presented with great marketing finesse, but we need to recognize them for what they are — payola for the food companies and con - ola for the public.
Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model - like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»
Not only does it represent a potential conflict every time an advisor builds a portfolio for his clients, it also recalls some of the worst practices of the brokerage model — like «shelf space» fees wherein a mutual fund company engages in a payola of sorts to make it onto a brokerage firm's platform or «recommended list.»
In fact, that was my original motivation for creating TC50: to stop the payola virus where startups paid $ 18,500 to get on stage.
graft... payola... bid rigging... all long histories in both states.
That Pope John Paul II, helping to bring down the Iron Curtain and free his homeland of Poland, he was really in it for the payola baby!
(Still some payola going on, I'm sure.)
But Politico couldn't avoid all interviews forever, and in the course of appearing on «The Brian Lehrer Show» to hype Politico's new Capital New York venture, CEO, former editor, and Allen co-author Jim VandeHei was asked about the payola allegations.
I suppose the real bogeyman of internet - driven marketing is that it will make so many location - specific, but functionally redundant jobs (i.e. pluggers, payola - whores) unnecessary.
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