04/20/2005, 10:00am, EDT
Wednesday, April 20th
Apple pays tech guru $15,000 to talk about iPod
The report says that Greenberg also appeared last month on Sunday Today to talk about Apple's iPhoto book printing service and that he has also appeared several times on CNBC, where he talked about Apple and Creative music products as well as Apple's iPod Photo. A CNBC spokeswoman said that the policies have been tightened that in the future editors would not allowed to talk about products/companies from whom they were receiving payments.
Despite the potential for abuse and/or a conflict of interest, at least one NBC executive seemed to acknowledge the financiaal relationships as commonplace: "This is a way of doing business for these people," said one NBC official who declined to be identified because the network would not let executives talk to the media. "It's hard to find a contributor who doesn't have a connection to one of these things."
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Oh my gosh ... heavens to mergatroid ... the sky is falling ...
this doesn't happen with microsoft, does it? ... hmmm? ... I don't think it happens with the Bush administration either ...
bad apple ;~~~
Just one more reason not to trust our media, even though they should be our line of defense against cover ups and secrecy.
Gee... when is Matt Lauer going to ask to stop the Microsoft commercial.
This is from Matt Lauer aka DNC Poster Boy.