>>34619687I've seen this one as well. What you have here is a list of budgets for RESEARCH and CONTACTING people, notice the word 'reach'. This is money spent on advertisers and oxternal research companies.
If it sounds unbelievable because it would be incredible overspend, no, this is the typical sort of budget a Research Dept has - the companies they outsource it to will overcharge, and large corps, especially if American, have more money than sense.
I mean, if they can't get their own taxes right, are they really capable of checking the expenses claims of their client research companies?
Then yoou have the email below this, which is about the leaks in 2017 - it shows that he has regular contact with Hasbro, but the biggest blogs ('journalists' if you want to be very generous, and I say this as one) often have contact.
And they were open about getting the SDCC poster, and, crucially, it was the very thing being promoted.
If you have proof that he got this in exchange for a good review of the movie, then you'd have a concrete charge of shilling.
Sorry, y'all, but like Seth or lump him, this isn't proof.
I did an interview and review of a set performed by a local band once, and they gave me a copy of their concept album as a freebie, which I used as part of my review.
The poster is on the same level as that.
