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payoh luh

  • n  a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record

  • After weeks of rumor mongering, the $3 billion-a-year record industry last week was spinning toward what could become its biggest crisis since the payola scandals of the late 1950s.
  • White payola is still bigger; it always has been.
  • In the fractured English of the pop-music world, "payola" is whatever the guy or doll in search of a hit slips to the guy or doll who can make one.
News & Articles

  • Andy Warhol painting reaps massive reward for Irish taxpayer at New York auction
    Andy Warhol has hit payola for the beleaguered Irish taxpayer in New York – thanks to a painting inspired by the US dollar! Art seized from failed property developer Derek Quinlan has been auctioned off at Christie’s in Manhattan by Ireland’s National Assets Management Agency.
    June 29, 2013 - Irish Central
  • Opinion: Bert and Ernie, You’re the One…
    Forty-four years ago tonight, a group of gay men and lesbians—drag queens, stone cold butch women, and everyone else just looking for a safe space to have a drink and have some fun—had finally had it. When police once again busted into Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, its patrons fought back: throwing coins at the cops in an arch take on payola; throwing shade at those who’d subjected them to ...
    June 28, 2013 - Time Magazine
Quotes

  • Eliot Spitzer in FOXNews
    A lot of the major songs have been implicated in this and it showed how pervasive the payola infrastructure had become,Spitzer told The Associated Press. "Probably many of the songs that were beneficiaries of the payola scheme would have...
  • Barack Obama in Las Vegas Sun
    From the Jose Pidal scandal, jueteng payola, Hello Garci election cheating controversy, to the ZTE and fertilizer scam, and many more abuses committed by Mr. and Mrs. Arroyo against the Filipino people, where I played the leading role in exposing,... Panfilo Lacson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panfilo_Lacson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGO4C9oX78AKHjPzjw5SSwYfwbAHw GMA news.tv http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183009/lacson-leaves-rp-to-escape-arroyo-harassment&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEf4pJrkRYAGkp_BCGUFyBC9cIPZQ Feb 2, 2010 72901 97534 payroll President Barack Obama said on Sept. 12 when campaigning for the presidency: I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your...

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