{"id":160,"date":"2004-12-13T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/13\/some-professors-take-payments-to-express-views\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:29:26","slug":"some-professors-take-payments-to-express-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/some-professors-take-payments-to-express-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Some professors take payments to express views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the <a href=\"http:\/\/mitcharnowitz.typepad.com\/tuvel\/2004\/12\/wom_bzzing_alon.html\">word of mouth marketing debates<\/a> most recently started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bzzagent.com\">BzzAgent<\/a>, a friend over at <a href=\"http:\/\/fleishman.com\/\">Fleishman Hillard<\/a> sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/12\/10\/financial1019EST0074.DTL\">this article<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/us\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. This time, we&#8217;re talking about transparency and ethics in academia. <\/p>\n<p>As the article points out, the practice of professors being paid to write editorials and express certain views, is a PR tactic that&#8217;s been around for a long time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><em>If a professor takes money from a company and then argues in the media for a position the company favors, is he an independent expert &#8212; or a paid shill? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the word of mouth marketing debates most recently started by BzzAgent, a friend over at Fleishman Hillard sent me this article from the Wall Street Journal. This time, we&#8217;re talking about transparency and ethics in academia. As the article points out, the practice of professors being paid to write editorials and express certain views, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-word-of-mouth-marketing","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}