No shit, Sherlock

[CatWoman]

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]

1. The whole of the Corporate Media isx all pretty much in the same bag, except where

the relationship is even more incestuous (or masturbatory) like Glenn Beck & his gold scam.

[arcane1]

2. Well, that scam is the music industry standard now, since they all own each other.

Websites are the new rock stations

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[UTUSN]

4. R#7 & K nt

[Cha]

5. Just as ABC ignored it's bogus email reporting "BENGHAZI!!11" from Jon Karl..

carrying the fuck on like it didn't happen.

Good to know.. thanks Cat.

[DeSwiss]

6. As someone here @ DU noted on a tagline I saw recently:

[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

[cantbeserious]

10. +1

eom

[ReRe]

7. Sounds apropos to me. SOP

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]

8. I'm sorry to be the one to break it to Johnathan,

but there haven't been any rules for about 20 years now.

[grantcart]

9. Kick and kick again

[hfojvt]

11. you should change your headline to this

Politico's Mike Allen is a shill

If that line goes viral, then maybe he will take a hit for what he's doing.

[countryjake]

12. kickety