payola

The $7-billion-a-year record industry, periodically beset by controversies ranging from payola to drugs, is quietly exerting damage control over a potential new scandal: complaints of sexual harassment by some of the top executives in the business.

There remain battles to be fought, whisper campaigns to be hatched, payola scandals to be investigated.

It's not just the payola, but what it represents: an imperious court stacked with far-right justices who have become petty tyrants.

It's not just the payola, but what it represents: an imperious court stacked with far-right justices who have become petty tyrants.

But Musk’s vision of a paid product resembles payola—something utterly extortionary.