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In Reply to: Perception Issue re: Ethics: Post & Poll posted by John Marks on January 11, 2007 at 09:59:08:
The statement of 'manufacture friends' stinks. Why are we 'friends' with manufacturers? Perhaps, I hope, you meant 'acquaintance'; a difference with an arguable distinction. How can you objectively comment on a 'friends' photo shoot, poem, book, auto choice, household color scheme, or *audio equipment* they manufacture, when you are paid to do so in a publication?Churches are tax-exempt. They should hold a fund-raiser and buy their equipment retail. If you want to help install that equipment,fine. If you want to suggest what they buy, you better be 110% anonymous.
Dinging your 'contacts' and 'friends' for donations to your off-duty effort is not very bright. You are a public figure, in the sense you are a published writer in a printed publication. Asking for 'donations' because you have 'friends' would taint anything you review in the future, since you don't allude to a manufacturer as a 'friend' at the preface of a review.
You are simple asking permission to work an angle and get something for nothing for your own benefit. In the corporate world, you would be in *deep trouble for this stupid proposition.
Besides that, you are a very good writer...
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Follow Ups
- Re: Perception Issue re: Ethics: Post & Poll - cdb 00:03:26 01/13/07 (3)
- I feel sorry for your cynical view of life! - John Marks 07:42:01 01/13/07 (2)
- Re: I feel sorry for your cynical view of life! - rick_m 14:59:56 01/14/07 (1)
- Thank You - John Atkinson 17:33:42 01/14/07 (0)
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