Jonathan Schwarz discovers the following ad embedded in a press release from NBC News.
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Boeing and its 153,000 employees are proud to sponsor
Meet the Press. To learn more about Boeing go to www.boeing.com.
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At least here at Gifthub we put the advertorials from Wealth Bondage, our proud corporate sponsor, in a little blue box rather than embedding them right into the news content. I admit the Boeing blurb is set of with little dashes. But dashes don't do it. Influence can leak right through those spaces between the dashes, and the dashed lines are open on either side. Very bad journalistic practice. Always set off the sponsor's material inside a box formed by a solid line. That way no one can question your objectivity.
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