This is from the Wall Street Journal this morning:

"The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has opened an investigation into the ways global music companies secure radio airplay for their releases, according to people familiar with the matter."

The article goes on that he wants to investigate the use of promoters who affiliate themselves with stations and pay a fee to the station to provide music. The allusion is that it's Payola.

Doesn't Spitzer know that if people don't like the songs, they'll change the station. And then the ad revenue drops as the listenership drops. Furthermore, if this is a crime, it's a victimless crime.

It irks me that people haven't recognized by now that Spitzer is on a never-ending quest to extort settlement money from anybody and everybody to fill the coffers of New York State's treasury. IMO he's done more damage to the entire U.S. economy than either Presidential Candidate could ever do.

The man is a jackass (no offense meant to any donkeys that may be reading this).