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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2693174" data-attributes="member: 11760">Let me tell you how this works for me, offline. In my regular life, I'm a newspaper reporter. And among the things I cover are local politics. During the last political season, every time I'd cover a fund-raiser, people wanted to give me a plate of whatever they were eating. I turned it down, not because a plate full of tacos can sway my opinion, but because people are already inclined to read bias into journalism in this day and age, and if they find out that I got a cut of prime rib from one of the local politicians, those inclined to believe I was biased in favor of him will suddenly go "AH HA!"As a result, I eat nothing, even when I have to race to a fast food restaurant after leaving a location with mouth-watering food.Is it necessary? No. Honestly, if I could be bought, my price would be a lot higher than that. But it makes the people in my small community feel better since I am notorious for turning down gifts.Now, in the review game, it's obviously impractical to buy everything oneself. But to prevent the (usually irrational, sometimes not) suspicion from falling on them, I think every reviewer should, as a matter of course, just say whether or not they got a review copy for free.The good reviewers suffer a perception problem created by the bad reviewers. The way to combat that is with more openess, and more honesty than the bad reviewers can afford.</blockquote>

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