Agency pays production company to be featured on Headline News…
The Cable Game notes this Buffalo News article by Thomas J. Dolan regarding an Amherst agency which paid a Florida production company $19,000 to be featured on CNN Headline News.
The problem I have with The Cable Game’s analysis is the implication that Headline News is on the payola gravytrain. I don’t see anything in the article that says that any of the money that the IDA paid to this company went to Headline News. So why is HLN being put under a microscope? It would help if the article made clear that HLN is not a financial benificiary from this arrangement, which it does not.
This smells like a conflict of interests to me.
Comment by Bob — September 21, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
TCG ASS/U/ME/S….And you know what happens when u do that.
Comment by Stud — September 22, 2006 @ 12:43 am