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> they don't take paid ads from their guests. How do you know this?
by Teever 6y ago
> they don't take paid ads from their guests.
How do you know this?
- ajross 6y agoThey sell journalism under the NBC brand. Is this a serious question? If CNBC was issuing paid advertisement like that it would be a much, much bigger story than a spike in a small cap retail stock.
- elif 6y agoNBC has double the primetime product placement of it's next nearest competitor, fox. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00101603/00001 https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00101603/00001
- ajross 6y agoThat's about fictional TV shows, not news.
- sschueller 6y agoOnly a small segment during the 247 news station day is actually designated as news. Everything else is news entertainment which has different regulations.
- ajross 6y agoI still don't see what this has to do with the point above, which is that a promoted tweet from CNBC for one of their segments is clearly not a paid advertisement by the guest in the segment.
- elif 6y agoYou don't think it is relevant in a discussion about deceptive paid primetime television marketing, that the company in question has the highest documented rate of deceptive paid primetime marketing?
- ajross 6y agoOK, you're just misunderstanding. "Primetime Television" is a marketing term that refers to the traditional TV network programming scheduled between 8-10pm. This is where they put the sitcoms and dramas and reality shows. And "Product Placement" refers not to advertising per se, but paid placement of retail products (e.g. cars, sodas, whatever) into the scenes in the fiction, or to appear as prizes, etc... It doesn't refer to news programming or other journalism, you just got confused. And I'll say it again: if NBC News, or any other major news media organization, ever got caught teasing a segment because of third party payment, it would be a much, much (seriously: much) bigger story than this minor nonsense about GameStop. They simply do not do what you are alleging, period.
- sschueller 6y agoDoes a free ticket to the exclusive event count as payment? You know like an apple event where new products are presented and then published in every paper around the world.
- elif 6y agoYou say i'm alleging the opposite of your argument, while I'm merely commentating about the observable ethics of the company in question. I'm not straw