Jonathan Chait on Politico's payola non-scandal

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In the fifties, a bunch of rock stations got caught taking money from music producers to give their artists airtime. The "Payola" scam, as it was called, was sufficiently outrageous to become a major national scandal. Last month, Washington Post reporter Erik Wemple reported that Politico's Mike Allen is running a similar scam — accepting lucrative payments from advertisers and lending his editorial voice to hyping, and sometimes parroting, their agenda. Given the relative importance of national politics vis-à-vis rock music, this struck me as a potentially career-ending revelation. Instead, Politico has ignored the report and carried on as if nothing at all were amiss.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...a-scandal.html

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...a-scandal.html

duh, all of Congress is on payola, quid pro quo. American morals, ethics, democracy, death by a 1000 cuts, the bar is continually, inexorably moving down