Cory Greenberg’s Apple cores
p2pnet.net News:- Last July Corey Greenberg, tech editor for the NBC Today show, praised the iPod as "a great portable musical player . . . the coolest-looking one" and suggested a compatible device to "share your music with other people."
"This is the way to go," he declared.
So reports the Washington Post but, "Let’s cut the Apple commercial here right now, okay?" co-host Matt Lauer interjected.
Apple commercial?
Horror of horrors! Say it ain’t so! Anyway, Steve the Pure would never allow it.
But Greenberg admits he’s received payments from not only Apple but also Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Seiko Epson, Creative Technology and Energizer Holdings, “charging $15,000 apiece to talk up their products on news shows,” says the story.
He claims manufacturers hired him as "a spokesperson who could talk credibly and understandably about consumer products," but that he’d no longer accept payment for appearances on local shows, the Post states, adding:
“NBC has not severed its relationship with Greenberg and other experts who it says failed to reveal their corporate ties. ‘This is a way of doing business for these people,’ said one NBC official who declined to be identified because the network would not let executives talk to the media. ‘It’s hard to find a contributor who doesn’t have a connection to one of these things’."
Hmmmm. Wonder how much \the RIAA and MPAA would pay?
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See:-
Washington Post – Firms Paid TV’s Tech Gurus To Promote Their Products, April 20, 2005
