Comments on: FTC “blogger review” honesty regulations are disingenuous at best

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:27:40 +0000

Agnes–what are you talking about?? Are you saying that Google somehow robbed you or stole from you? Could you state your issue more clearly?

It would have been nice if the FTC included all media–that might have gotten some honesty and integrity back into the MSM (Main Stream Media). If you think the MSM is balanced with honest and integrity, keep this in mind: the MSM has stated that they could get 15% of the vote for their favored US President candidate. If that is the case, and you take 15% of the votes from Mr. Obama, Mr. Obama would have gotten all of three electoral votes.

Also, if the MSM would tell me that they received the product or service for free (whether loaned or given), I would know to take their opinion for what it is–a potential fluff piece that should be taken with a grain of salt.

By: Agnes

Agnes — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:55:30 +0000

I have lived Honestly during my life time, I just wanted Web and Music on internet- do U know what I got, I amm Robbed since 22 months by US Google internet bitch taken away all my Property and PCs sold for money by US G Bitch shame bitch and Google
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By: Gear reviewer

Gear reviewer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:54:58 +0000

That’s been my main problem with this shoddy piece of pseudo-regulation: why should one type of media be any different than another? I know plenty of print media people who get showered with freebies and go on lots of junkets, but when’s the last time you saw a disclosure paragraph at the end of a magazine article? Where’s the bit of text saying they ran 5 pages of articles about the Bahamas because Bahamas Tourism bought 5 full pages of advertising that issue?

Most consumers don’t even care anyway—-look at how they gobble up reality TV shows that are basically one big product placement opportunity. This is, for the most part, one of the least pressing problems the FTC could be spending its time on. As long as I feel like the reviewer/writer is giving an accurate picture of the product/service/place, I couldn’t care less how that experience came about. Most bloggers would never be able to afford to buy even half the stuff they write about, so the end result if they had to would be less information out there overall, back to the days when producers controlled the message.