Of course, influence campaigns are nothing new; the US and the UK, among others, have aggressively courted journalists, offering enticements such as freebie trips and privileged access to senior officials.
Always re-think whether you want that item you are going to buy, especially when it is cheap or is given away as freebie.
Is one assault a freebie, as long as you don't do it again?
Mostly what anyone knew about Olson (including me) was that he had been paid $100,000 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to lead them to the sites of 11 murders he said he had committed -- $10,000 per body, with one thrown in (as he said) as a "freebie".
Many home insurance policies include legal expenses cover as a freebie or paid-for add-on.
Researchers have understood for years that such offers hurt the perceived value of the product billed as the freebie.
As a child, he saved up to buy his mother a syrup pitcher, only to have the local home heating oil company give her one as a freebie.
Once known as a freebie magazine by hipsters for hipsters, handed out at Lower East Side record stores, Vice is now a global brand with a stated circulation of 1.2 million, offices in 30 countries and partnerships with CNN and Intel.
They would see such a U.S.-based volunteer as a "freebie," the former officer said — if he returns home to attack, great, but if he merely goes off to report back to his C.I.A. case officer, no harm done.
Those trust-fund-driven budget surpluses, in turn, enabled George W. Bush, first as a candidate and then as President, to sell (falsely, it turned out) his program of tax cuts for the comfortable as a freebie.
A few years ago, I was invited to a film festival, as a freebie, because I'd done so much work on a movie that they said I should be there.
