Corporate Awards & Prizes: Subtle Ways Of Biasing Media Coverage

And one step on a slippery slope toward being a “made man” (or woman.

Financial scribes urged to vie for Diageo Awards

The bias may seem subtle and the step toward being a in a corporate pocket one that can be eased away through denial, but both are there.

Just as soon as a blogger or journalist — anyone who purports to write “without fear or favor” — starts to accept money from the companies s/he covers, the temptation is always there to pull a punch, to look away