[rollei_list] Re: "NIH Syndrome" (was: Liquid Lenses)
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:23:18 -0500
>> Sony is not averse to bribing journalists, either. It came out several
>> years ago that they had paid Andy Pargh "The Gadget Guru" $ 80,000 to
>> write a little pamphlet for them. The kind of job they would have paid
>> someone like me maybe a grand to do. Sony products were prominently
>> featured in Andy's Today Show TV spots and magazine articles for quite
>> some time after that. Unfortunately for Sony, their investment in Andy
>> took a nose dive when he was summarily booted off the air following a
>> scandal in S. Florida.
>>
>> Bob
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>
> You need a better agent. ;-)
>
> In terms of Sony's investment, even one featured segment on the Today show
> (on the USA's NBC Television Network) is worth many, many times an $80,000
> investment, if these are the true facts of this matter...
>
> In terms of entities paying journalists for their coverage, recent news
> events tell us that private parties and public governments alike engage in
> the practice. Is it small wonder that journalism and journalists are now
> given roughly the same status/stature as used car salesmen here in the US?
>
>
> Eric Goldstein
Here's the CJR's account of this, with some key differences from what has
been referenced on this list:
http://archives.cjr.org/year/98/1/neutrality.asp
Eric Goldstein, in the process of being covered with 2 feet of snow in
Boston, MA, USA...
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