Comments on: How Will Music Blogs Deal With The FTC’s New Disclosure Guidelines? http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: cinderkeys http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982712 cinderkeys Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:18:36 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982712 My understanding (gained from catching maybe 30 seconds on NPR) is that the FTC won't be expending any real time or money going after bloggers. Even theoretically, it's hard to imagine these guys going after reviewers who receive the thing they're going to review. A free copy never guarantees a good review. But nevermind that. I second mobius1ski's proposal to make politicians disclose their contributions. In speeches is a start. In bills would be even better. My understanding (gained from catching maybe 30 seconds on NPR) is that the FTC won’t be expending any real time or money going after bloggers.

Even theoretically, it’s hard to imagine these guys going after reviewers who receive the thing they’re going to review. A free copy never guarantees a good review.

But nevermind that. I second mobius1ski’s proposal to make politicians disclose their contributions. In speeches is a start. In bills would be even better.

]]> By: pdfreeman http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982362 pdfreeman Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:33:41 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982362 @<a href="#comment-982322" rel="nofollow">nOvaMatic</a>: No, I'm a freelancer (AMG, Alternative Press, the Village Voice, a ton of other places), so I'm always trying to book for-money CD reviews, if not features, is what I'm saying. @nOvaMatic: No, I’m a freelancer (AMG, Alternative Press, the Village Voice, a ton of other places), so I’m always trying to book for-money CD reviews, if not features, is what I’m saying.

]]> By: brasstax http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982342 brasstax Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:38:16 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982342 I don't see how they'll ever be able to police this anyway if they can't do anything besides slow down the 100,000 blogs out there that zip up full albums and post them for download. Who's going to even go to the trouble of investigating individual bloggers who all write about the same lame teaser mp3 from the next Sufjan album? I don’t see how they’ll ever be able to police this anyway if they can’t do anything besides slow down the 100,000 blogs out there that zip up full albums and post them for download. Who’s going to even go to the trouble of investigating individual bloggers who all write about the same lame teaser mp3 from the next Sufjan album?

]]> By: nOvaMatic http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982322 nOvaMatic Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:10:57 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982322 @<a href="#comment-982302" rel="nofollow">pdfreeman</a>: Gyant, is that <a href="http://idolator.com/5268562/5268562" rel="nofollow">you</a>? @pdfreeman: Gyant, is that you?

]]> By: pdfreeman http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982302 pdfreeman Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:59:57 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982302 I almost never blog about stuff that I get in the mail; I'm too busy trying to get someone to pay me to write about it. I do twitter about what I'm listening to, though, and if I have to say "(got for free from publicist)" every time, that's a big chunk of my 140 characters gone right up front. I almost never blog about stuff that I get in the mail; I’m too busy trying to get someone to pay me to write about it. I do twitter about what I’m listening to, though, and if I have to say “(got for free from publicist)” every time, that’s a big chunk of my 140 characters gone right up front.

]]> By: mobius1ski http://idolator.com/5279442/how-will-music-blogs-deal-with-the-ftcs-new-disclosure-guidelines/comment-page-1#comment-982272 mobius1ski Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:20:21 +0000 http://idolator.com/?p=5279442#comment-982272 i'm all for disclosing whether or not one received material incentive to promote another's merchandise, but it's crazy that bloggers are required to do this, but that congressmen are not. could you imagine, "before today's senate finance committee on health care reform, i just need to disclose that i received over $100,000 in campaign contributions from health care lobbyists representing the insurance industry." as if that would ever happen. now a blogger will be penalized $11,000 for not saying in his review they got a free copy of the CD from a label's PR dept., but senators and congressmen around the country can continue to take hundreds of thousands in dollars in gifts from lobbyists and hide that information on their campaign finance records with the help of their party's congressional campaign operations. i’m all for disclosing whether or not one received material incentive to promote another’s merchandise, but it’s crazy that bloggers are required to do this, but that congressmen are not.

could you imagine, “before today’s senate finance committee on health care reform, i just need to disclose that i received over $100,000 in campaign contributions from health care lobbyists representing the insurance industry.” as if that would ever happen.

now a blogger will be penalized $11,000 for not saying in his review they got a free copy of the CD from a label’s PR dept., but senators and congressmen around the country can continue to take hundreds of thousands in dollars in gifts from lobbyists and hide that information on their campaign finance records with the help of their party’s congressional campaign operations.

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