Comments on: Should Finance Experts disclose deals?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:23:43 +0000

I miss Tom Piotrowski ! The guys at Macquarie Bank have nothing on him.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:08:45 +0000

I’ve seen a couple of news stories on Ten and Seven about NAB that I thought were a bit dodgy. It featured the same woman being asked “Why is NAB is so great?”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:49:13 +0000

there was a caller on 3AW the other morning asking if Tom Petrovski wears a wig? Nice to see 3AW tackling the serious issues, although its sister newspaper at least seems to be

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:37:45 +0000

It’s interesting that you’ve brought this up – I’ve known these things were essentially paid ‘advertorials’ since reading an article about it in the Australian last year, but I’ve never made the connection between that and cash for comment – they should have some sort of “paid presentation” disclaimer really!

By: FJ

FJ — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:19:45 +0000

There are many dodgy things that go on with TV. When TV channels get rights to sports like AFL a certain amount of that is in contra. I believe certain channels contra is doing favourable stories on those sports in their news bulletins.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:25:07 +0000

Could “Cash For Comment” be back, this time in the TV industry?

By: Bogues

Bogues — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:44:30 +0000

The ABC also crosses to finance companies for its news. There was an item on Mediawatch last year about the prominence of the company logo, which was made smaller after Mediawatch got involved.

By: Richard W

Richard W — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:26:47 +0000

When the banks get into bed with the commercial TV and Radio networks, it means the networks are less likely to give banks a bad name, meaning less argument when banks increase unfair fees and interest rates on us customers.