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The tech news industry aside, would anyone have insight into how prevalent paying for positive news coverage is? Better still: Is there a transparency index of
by Simulacra 8y ago
The tech news industry aside, would anyone have insight into how prevalent paying for positive news coverage is? Better still: Is there a transparency index of news organizations ?
- mrep 8y agoWell, a lot of news comes from PR agencies which are paid to promote stories to news agencies for companies per http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Definitely worth a read.
- aunty_helen 8y agoMy favourite pg essay. There's also https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/
- weber111 8y ago2005 must have been nice: "Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week... Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think."
- black6 8y agoThe guys over at the No Agenda Podcast have been on top of native advertising for years. Almost every one of the semi-weekly episodes has a native ad example.
- Simulacra 8y agoIn the Morning to You!
- extralego 8y agoTransparency index? Who would publish that? And how transparent would they be?
- Simulacra 8y agoI'm not sure, perhaps an international journalism organization?