Journalist Merrill Goozner rants about journalists accepting speaking fees from entities they cover.
He talks about an upcoming Las Vegas convention of health insurers, at which journalists from PBS, Fox, and the New Yorker will speak. He writes that one "talk is sponsored by Schering-Plough. Each of the other sessions is supported by major health providers – Merck-Medco, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Pasteur, Amgen. The insurance companies' annual meeting, it turns out, is sponsored by their contractors, the companies whose fees they're supposed to hold down. I guess it's all one big happy family."
Posted by schwitz at April 29, 2005 07:34 AM