If you're paying somebody to say something they wouldn't normally say, or to shut up about something, then I agree that there's a problem. Paying people to do something they're going to do anyway is just dumb, and makes them look bad when the word gets out, and it always gets out.
Well, the upshot of this is that we're likely to have another stupid law passed which will do nothing to solve the "problem" of people being paid to flack for one side or the other. Meanwhile, the mainstream media do this sort of advocacy all the time for nothing, so...
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Date: 2005-01-29 01:02 am (UTC)Well, the upshot of this is that we're likely to have another stupid law passed which will do nothing to solve the "problem" of people being paid to flack for one side or the other. Meanwhile, the mainstream media do this sort of advocacy all the time for nothing, so...