{"id":96,"date":"2006-02-10T01:13:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/96"},"modified":"2006-02-10T01:13:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T07:13:58","slug":"boycott-riaacom-article-probe-into-pay-for-play-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"boycott-riaa.com &#8211; Article: Probe into &#8216;pay-for-play&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boycott-riaa.com\/article\/19421\">boycott-riaa.com &#8211; Article: Probe into &#8216;pay-for-play&#8217; scandal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that it&#8217;s not the listener that gets a song played anymore.  I can&#8217;t remember the last time I heard of someone calling a radio station to request a song.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact I have a little more in site into this than the average person.<\/p>\n<p>I used to be a radio dj. <\/p>\n<p>At 1 point in time I heard a news blurb about 2 people who claimed to work for a company that called up radio stations and requested songs, one of the bands the blurb mentioned was for Salt-N-Peppa.<\/p>\n<p>Then I recalled a time when it was late, and someone requested to hear a song by Salt and Peppa.  This happened twice.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of weeks it came to me, that company must have been calling me to request that song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boycott-riaa.com &#8211; Article: Probe into &#8216;pay-for-play&#8217; scandal Everyone knows that it&#8217;s not the listener that gets a song played anymore. I can&#8217;t remember the last time I heard of someone calling a radio station to request a song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}