[rollei_list] Re: "NIH Syndrome" (was: Liquid Lenses)
- From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:30:37 +0000
It is not just the US Eric. I know of a car company who gave an
influential journalist an extremely generous contract to write
advertising copy "in your country, in the correct idiom if ever we need
it". They were never called upon to write anything. This was 20 years
ago, there is nothing new in it.
Frank
On 22 Jan, 2005, at 23:33, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> 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
>
>
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