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Spitzer Takes On Record Industry Payola
flackrum writes "NY Attorney General Spitzer has served subpoenas to four major record labels (UMG, BMG, EMI, WMG) in a continued house-cleaning of corporations employing dirty-tricks. In this particular group of cases, investigations are focusing on the circumvention of the Federal Payola Law, which forbids bribing radio broadcasters in return for airing specific songs. Mmm sweet karma."
First Spitzer reams the Mutual Fund houses, then the Insurance/Ripoff industry and now this. I'm begging all of you who can vote (I became a citizen 2 days ago - too late to register) to write-in Elliot Spitzer for President. Then we'll see some house-cleaning...
Nice job on the editing. I thought I was the last^H^H^H^H^H only one still doing that.
I figured you'd have some complaints about "America Bashing"...and after reading the modded down replies I see I wasn't wrong.
I hope that each of those people whining about "America Bashing" stops to think about their knee jerk reaction.
First, when whining about "America Bashing" do you see any similarities between your complaints and those of the politically correct? People whinining about the actions of others rather than ignoring the incorrect complaints or correcting the valid ones?
Second, why do you think the bad mouthing of America is on the rise? Is everyone just jealous of us Americans? Bitter, disenfranchised Europeans sick of our economic and fiscal might? Smelly brown people upset that they have to clean toilets for a living? Those two things haven't changed, they've always been so. Except at one point those people used to want to come to America and/or look to it for strength, opportunity and equality. Why do you think they no longer do?
Third, Being in some sort of a cultural, military or econimic slide is one thing, pretending you aren't and not taking steps to correct it is another. Living in any sort of a vacuum is only going to increase the rate and depth of that slide. Insulation is not healthy. It breeds ignorance.
Wake up America: Being born in the U.S isn't enough, it never was. Respect, strength, prosperity and support come through actions and shared values, not nepotism and patronage.
Look outside Fox News and CNN. Try to *understand* why those outside of the US are offering so much more criticism. Don't rely on faith or others to do your critical thinking, that's lazy. Being lazy is not a virtue.
It's a small world, and a new one. And the new world didn't start on 9/11/2001.