Filed Under: “Are you any different?”
I am saddened to announce that NY Gov Eliot Spitzer has officially resigned, he will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who will become New York‘s first black governor. I am no longer saddened!
Unless you are under a rock, I’m sure you have heard about the Eliot Spitzer Scand al by now. The Governer purchased high end prostitution services (no cheap hos with stab wounds, no teeth and cellulite please) after he basically changed the music industry’s payola practices. To his credit, he took the side cash away but he NEVER said labels couldn’t buy a programmer a ho… People like Spitzer bring new meaning to the words hypocrite… yet human…
“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates any sense of right or wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family; I apologize to the public who I promised better,” Spitzer said at a news conference held earlier this week.
Of course this rehearsed apology would have never come had he not gotten busted. Now he had the dubious honor of saving his job and his marriage, not necessarily in that order. Have you ever noticed the wife always looks like she already knew in these situations? They always have a look on their faces during the press conference that says “Let this sh… be over soon so I can get back to my got damn flask…. these reporters are looking at me like nobody wants to fook me.” She actually has to stand there as if she actually supports this situation. Her self esteem has to be tanked. In the end, she needs him to keep his job too so when she divorces him, she will get a nice piece of change.
Prior to becoming Governor, Spitzer pursued payola connections between record companies and radio stations and successfully forced several large players to change the way they do business while brokering agreements including hefty fines and modified business behavior… and to think, all they had to do was buy him a ho…
On November 11, 2005, while New York Attorney General, he brokered a settlement in the music industry’s “pay-for-play” arrangement with the Radio industry involving Warner Music Group Corp., the thirdhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif largest record company in the United States. Earlier that same year on July 25, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced an agreement where Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to stop making payments and providing expensive gifts to radio stations and their employees in return for “airplay” for the company’s songs. The inducements for airplay, also known as “payola,” took several forms:
Ironically, I’m surprised that many programmers are being quiet on this and we are not gloating. Well, then again the less you say the less guilty you look too. Respond to the poll to the right, we’d like to know what you think…
