Even in the era of payola, the label was known in the industry as being very generous.
Now payola is a term for money and gifts that record companies give radio stations to play their records.
Worse yet, the Bush Administration has clearly not thought through the implications of the sort of "payola" scheme being advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
Democrats claim it's an exercise in corporate payola insurers receive a defined contribution for covering a senior (though insurers are paid to administer most of traditional Medicare too, under government instructions).
North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore held a press conference Friday in a bid to limit damage after a Forbes story (see "Pensions, Pols, Payola") garnered a lot of unwanted scrutiny.
The ProPublica report does not distinguish between rare private payments for genuinely pernicious activities--like payola, which is already a serious crime--and those that finance crucial activities, like education and laboratory work.
But the settlement absolves broadcasters of past payola misdeeds.
When the payola scandals of the late '50s engulfed the music industry -- DJs and music business types were given bribes to play certain records -- both Freed and Clark were subjects of scrutiny.
"Internet payola, " he called it. (Verizon and Google denied they were making such a deal.) "Blocking is the same thing as censorship, " says Wu, a Harvard law grad who studied under open- Internet evangelist Lawrence Lessig.
The Federal Communications Commission announces the details of a settlement with four of the nation's largest radio broadcasters Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Citadel and Entercom over the practice of payola, the practice of accepting payment from record labels to air their artists without disclosing that arrangement to listeners.
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