Newspaper reporters and columnists in both their dead tree media incarnations and their online mutations love to use public media's on-air fundraising as a no doubt audience-pleasing punching bag (when they could use their bully-pulpits in far more constructive ways).
But this Boston Globe political reporter (in covering the somewhat unrelated matter of a new element of the Obama campaign's fundraising) goes beyond railing against pledge drives to refer to the pledge free or buyback tactic as a "trick"--one that is "oft-used" by public radio. Interesting and worth noting that in this pundit's view, the approach is somehow inauthentic. You can always count on your critics to pay close attention.
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