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____/ Sinister Midget III on Tuesday 23 June 2009 20:32 : \____
> On 2009-06-23, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>
>> Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies
>>
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>>| Microsoft, for example, created a wave of
>>| bad press a few years ago when it gave free Acer laptops preloaded with
>>| Windows Vista to several dozen bloggers.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10269962-38.html
>
> Here's the monkey wrench:
>
> The practice of free products for bloggers, most of whom are not
> bound by ethical guidelines that journalists have historically
> followed....."
>
> "Journalists" have mostly stopped following anything related to ethics,
> and even anything that appear to qualify as guidelines. Not all, but
> certainly most.
>
> If MICROS~1 and bloggers adhere to the same "standards" they'll all be
> going on pleasure cruises and trips to paradise islands without ever
> having to disclose for whom they're working/lying.
Like Enderle having cocktail parties in Redmond? [Perlow leaked/spilled the
beans last year]
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