staker2 - Irresponsible journalism is blatantly painting a "review" specifically designed to sell a product as "journalism" or "consumerism" or some other kind of "ism" - an ad is a freaking ad and should be identified as such.

SemAdvance - Newspapers may be struggling, but at least most of them follow the rules about tagging as "ADVERTISEMENT" some bogus "news" article that's nothing more than 500 words of shill. Google would be smart (and they probably already are) to anticipate FTC regulations and find ways to identify, if not necessarily downgrade in search results, articles that exist for no other reason than to push a product.

Just because anybody with a dialup connection can create a blog doesn't lend squat to either their credibility or ethics.

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