[mdlug] Is MS bribing bloggers?

[Wolfger]

On 12/28/06, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
> 2006-12-28, Monsieur Michael Rudas (computer) a ecrit:
> > Hmmmm... when record companies did this with radio
> > stations in the '50s, it was called "payola".  People
> > lost jobs and went to jail.  Why should it be any
> > different for a convicted monopolist?
>
> The difference here being that lots of people actually listened
> to the radio stations. :)

So what is the difference between paying a blogger to say something
(anything) about your product, and paying an actor to say something
(that your marketing department wrote) about your product? I'd rather
see the former than the latter, and not just because I have dreams
Microsoft will buy me a laptop. It only becomes unethical if the
bloggers try to conceal what Microsoft has done to curry their favor.

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