Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers?

jamie writes "According to the conservative political journalism site Daily Caller: '"It's standard operating procedure" to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative. A GOP blogger-for-hire estimates that "at least half the bloggers that are out there" on the Republican side "are getting remuneration in some way beyond ad sales." Or in some cases, it's the ads themselves: ads at ten times the going rate are one of the ways conservative bloggers apparently get paid by the politicians they write about. In usual he-said she-said fashion, Daily Caller finds a couple of obscure liberal bloggers to mention too, but they fully disclosed payment and one of them even shut down his blog while doing consulting work, unlike Robert Stacy McCain and Dan Riehl."

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Re:Gee

[Toonol]

If you think the Democrats have a shortage of loons in their party, you aren't looking at the two parties in an unbiased manner. There are a LOT of nuts in both parties. You should primarily judge the party by the majority of the members, which are not insane in either party. They simply disagree.

i don't know that link domain

[circletimessquare]

i'm not clicking that

(thank you slashdot, for overtly publishing link domains)

kindly point me to a reputable news source