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____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 23:19 : \____
> On Feb 24, 11:52 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Melinda makes an informercial disguised as an oped for a newspaper where she
>> sits on the board
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Next time Gates Keepers wants to publish an
>> | infomercial disguised as an oped in a
>> | newspaper we will be sure to go to a
>> | newspaper where we sit on the Board of
>> | Directors. That is what Melinda has done.
>> | Has this Gates Foundation board member no
>> | shame? Why didn't she send it to another
>> | paper where she doesn't sit on the board?
>> `----
>
>> http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/2/23/4463848.html
>
> Not that unusual. Rupert Murdock has no problem saying whatever he
> wants to say, with or without "approval" from anybody. Not surprising
> that Melinda, whose Gates foundation invests in commercial media,
> using the profits to contribute to public media such as NPR and PBS,
> might want to ask the people she already knows if they would publish
> her writing. She could get published or interviewed by any of dozens
> of papers and news stations, just because she's an investor/
> benefactor.
>
> We may not like it, but as long as mass media is supported by
> advertisers or contributors, those who supply the money will have a
> say in what gets published. 99% of the time, a given advertiser is
> only concerned about getting ratings. But that 1%, an irate
> advertiser can pull thousands of dollars worth of ad revenue or
> contributions - and that's just for one DAY of advertising.
>
> If NBC Nightline did an expose' telling how generic drugs were better,
> safer, and cheaper than the commercial brands, it's highly likely that
> many of the vendors of brand-name drugs might pull ads from one or
> more NBC programs aired during the day, where it would cause more
> pain. But the message would be clear - don't bless generics unless
> THEY are paying for the advertizing.
>
> Microsoft has done the same thing. When Walt Mossberg wrote an
> article singing the praises of Linux or Solaris, Microsoft contacted
> the head of Dow Jones, told him they were pulling all of their ads for
> one day (about $250,000) and told him that if they liked this
> competitor so much, THEY could pay for that space. It only took about
> an hour for the message to spread throughout the facility in Princeton
> NJ, where the IT department and the CEO were located. Walt was much
> more careful about praising Microsoft's competitors after that.
Is there any link for that? I have some leaked correspondence between pearly
gates and Mossberg.
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