payola

1 So you can’t dismiss payola on prima facie grounds, but neither can you cite prima facie evidence to prove it.

2 Moderators are deposed after power struggles; the community is periodically wracked by allegations of payola and other schemes in which moderators game Reddit for personal gain.

3 But the label was already collapsing under the weight of a payola scandal, and Johnson's career again stalled.

4 Or the payola allegations (2011).

5 But the rules, which have been in place since the radio “payola” scandals of the 1950s, are infrequently enforced today.

6 It's time to bite the bullet, or replace all of Congress and the Administration with politicians who will not take the payola.

7 At worst, it amounted to a kind of payola scheme—and a potential financial conflict of interest that researchers should disclose.

8 That’s far from the only way that Berry and other Black artists of the time were exploited, but “Chuck Berry” mainly holds its nose and sidles past payola and other music-industry scandals.

9 Mr. Rupe cited payola — bribery of disc jockeys — as a reason that he gradually lost interest in the music business.

10 There is the obligatory nightclub knife fight, guns appear, payola is dispensed, and drugs and booze are consumed.

11 Critics have called this a form of payola.

12 Cannon’s 1962 record went to No. 3, and ABC, which didn’t want another payola investigation, forbade him from writing more.

13 Have you ever accepted payola in exchange for spins?

14 The announcer was fired for taking payola.

播音员因接受贿赂而被解雇了。

15 Payola is the oil on which the political machine runs.

贿赂是政治机器运转的润滑油.

16 Despite the risk, payola continued.

17 Gravani has kept up with the various federal investigations into “payola,” as she puts it, at City Hall.

18 Census takers generally recorded them as women who “keep house” or as “domestic servants”—unless they missed their payola payments.

19 The actual problems of payola—or rather, the problems with how major labels, radio stations and independent promoters operate within U.S. payola laws—are far more counterintuitive than you’d imagine.

20 For Holter, all the discussion about fractions of pennies, parity and payola, while crucial, is less a concern than Spotify’s power and potential consequences for musicians.

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2 行贿

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3 贿赂

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4 esp贿赂

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5 贿赂款

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6 红包

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