re: #165 makeitstop

And the radio promotions game was as dirty as it gets for a while.

Payola scandal

It nearly took down an American icon, Dick Clark. He had enough sense to back away.

Payola’s not past-tense, by the way. They can give cash and party favors to their hearts’ content, and the law only requires that it be disclosed at some point. The DJ can say something along the lines of, “AWWW YEAH WE’LL BE SPINNIN THIS ONE FOR YA ALL WEEK by special arrangement RIGHT HERE ON 107.5 THE BONE” and if he says it one time at 3:00am that’s enough to satisfy the law.