In Reply to: RE: The ethics of accepting products for review with the promise of advertising. posted by JNS on February 25, 2012 at 12:32:51:
Really?Let's use a real - world example. I wrote for Listener magazine for it's entire life span. I had no connection to the advertising sales person. I may have met her once at a party at Art Dudley's house but other than that I never spoke to her, ever. Art and I never discussed the magazine's ads, and I had no knowledge of what ads had been sold for upcoming issues or anything else to do with ads in Listener. Art never asked me to change a review in any way to make it more palatable to an advertiser. Given these facts, please explain exactly how the content of the reviews I wrote was rendered unreliable by the ads that were adjacent to those reviews.
Edits: 02/25/12
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- "When a magazine depends almost solely on adv. dollars to survive this publication ceases to be objective" - Rob Doorack 17:58:05 02/25/12 (11)
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