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Related: About this forumFake "News" Factories: M$M Offering Interviews for Sale at DNC & RNC Conventions
Major Political News Outlets Offer Interviews for Sale at DNC and RNC Conventions
by Lee Feng * July 1, 2016 * the Intercept
FOR HIGH-ROLLING special interests looking to make an impression at the presidential conventions next month, one option is to pay a lot of money to a media outlet. Lobbyists for the oil industry, for instance, are picking up the tab for leading Beltway publications to host energy policy discussions at the convention, including The Atlantic and Politico.
And for the right price, some political media outlets are even offering special interviews with editorial staffers and promotional coverage at the convention.
The Hill newspaper, which is sponsoring events at both the RNC and DNC, offers sponsors a turnkey and custom experience, including a Thought-Leader Luncheon moderated by The Hills editorial staff and the luncheon sponsor, who also gets to curate a list of participants from politics, government, media and industry.
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/01/convention-parties-lobby/
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Fake "News" Factories: M$M Offering Interviews for Sale at DNC & RNC Conventions (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Jul 2016
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reddread
(6,896 posts)1. merchants in the temple of the public interest
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. "Thought Leader"? WTF??????
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)3. "News" for sale: "money is speech" and the sky is the limit.
The measure of a person, is the thickness of their wallet, not the content
of their character.
Soon no-one who is alive will even remember when the news was actually news,
and not an infomercial pretending to be news.
Resulting in a GE where both party's nominees are the least trusted in history.
reddread
(6,896 posts)5. precisely
aint it grand?
MADem
(135,425 posts)4. I have always believed that with the Citizens United
decision, the Supremes were telling the poor that they are disenfranchised. In the political sphere, they are muted.
If money is speech in all marketplaces, I'd be typing one helluva lot less!
I'm sure there are some who might find that a feature as opposed to a bug...