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Buying Your Way Into Airline "Radio News"

"The caller to Joanne Doroshow's office last month described himself as working for Sky Radio Network, a company that produces programming for Forbes Radio, one of the audio channels available to passengers on American Airlines. As the executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that casts itself as a champion of consumer rights, Ms. Doroshow was asked if she would be interviewed for a talk show examining the issue of tort reform. When Ms. Doroshow agreed, she said, the caller informed her that it would cost her organization $5,900 to have its point of view heard. When Ms. Doroshow balked, she said, the caller offered to see if it could be reduced to $3,500. 'I was furious,' Ms. Doroshow said. 'I thought this was another way corporations are dominating what people hear, and are getting only their side presented because they're willing to pay for it.' "

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http://www.prwatch.org/node/2249