JOURNALIST PROMOTING CONTEST GETS JOB AT HOME DEPOT

Oh...my...goodness... Back on December 12th, 2007, an article was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  This article was written by Patti Bond. It was a glowing review of Home Depot's new marketing tool, the YouTube $25,000 contest.  It included a nice link to Home Depot's contest web site and more. Why then, EIGHT DAYS LATER on December 20th, 2007, did we find out that Patti Bond is no longer working at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Did she want to spend time with her family? Not exactly.  She took a new job in internal communications somewhere else. Where, you ask? At Home Depot.  Yes, you read that right.  A little over a week after publishing a wide-spread article promoting Home Depot's $25,000 contest, she resigns so she can go work for Home Depot.  Nice... Are there laws against this?

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