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Cable/TV News fairly regularly pay subjects for stories.

• epochwolf 17y ago
  But they don't release the names of people like this. I took a journalism ethics class taught by the news manager of a local ABC affiliate, they would never run a story like this. This is beyond disgusting. Edit: This http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone is the article I'm referring to. Purchasing the iphone was definitely illegal but it isn't completely out of bounds for journalism.
• eli 17y ago
  Most TV news programs are also not serious journalism organizations, unfortunately. Also worth noting that when they do checkbook journalism, they're usually quite sneak about it. For example, paying someone under the pretense of buying rights to their photographs or paying their travel expenses. That's because even they know it's wrong to pay sources/subjects outright.