new york (ap) - recording industry titan sony bmg music
entertainment agreed monday to pay $10 million and stop bribing
radio stations to feature its artists in what a state official
called a more sophisticated generation of the payola scandals of
decades ago.
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looks like a few more rats have been found aboard the sinking ship of radio. rats who probably will keep their high-paying jobs with sony bmg, even after they were busted engaging in a little pay for play. props to the ny state attorney general not only for sniffing this out, but also for pointing out that no way is this new generation of payola isolated to sony bmg (whose labels include arista, columbia and jive and whose artists include such singularly talented standouts as j.lo, avril lavigne, Jessica Simpson ...
