Rounding up the FTC Blog Regulation reaction.
Real quick summary: the FTC wants to keep an eye on blogs to see whether we’re trading favorable reviews of products for financial reward – which doesn’t sound so bad, until you consider that this...
View ArticleThe – translated – Gibbs PhRMA/Axelrod payola video.
Video via The Conservatives: it’s of Gibbs ducking and weaving away from a question about why Axelrod’s former company’s getting that sweet, sweet ad money from the White House’s new friend PhRMA, so I...
View ArticleCharlie Rangel (D, NY) gave money to Democrats on Ethics Committee.
(Via @vermontaigne) Three of them. Need I add that Charlie Rangel is currently under investigation by that committee? Charlie’s “angels” on the committee include Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky,...
View ArticleYosi Sergant out at National Endowment for the Arts.
Payola questions remain. More or less. Sergant, for those who were wondering, was the NEA communications director who had been had been involved in a conference call last month that – depending on who...
View Article#rsrh Leaders of the PACs: Health Care Payola.
This was originally titled “Doing Well By Selling Out,” but by now, who really believed that they were sincere in the first place? Vulnerable House Democrats who supported the healthcare bill last...
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