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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Along with these damaging revelations, an embarrassing set of criminal investigations involving corruption and payola in radio had been launched.
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As with most arms dealers payola - commission or bribes - is the key to his living.
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Even Dave Clark would admit payola had its dark side.
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It is a shameless form of payola for those who have helped a political party to get elected.
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The roots of that historic meeting were in a Newark grand-jury investigation into payola in black radio.
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These conditions created payola , the practice of deejays getting paid by record companies to play their product.
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Was the music, finally, about peace or payola ?