A local radio station always refers to its broadcast center as "The Carter Subaru studio"--because the eponymous sponsor paid them to do so. If the NFL was paid $400 million, all affiliated broadcasters carrying the games should have been trained to say things like "...and there he is using his 'Microsoft Surface' tablet, the official tablet of the NFL...". I hear stuff like this all the time in broadcasting. Yes, it would sound awkward, but it's a paid advertisement. Then again, I have no idea what the verbiage of the contract actually requires of the NFL. Maybe Microsoft has a case to get its money back. Or maybe Microsoft should write a better contract next time.

No. He's simply advocating NOT LYING. Telling the truth by disclosing something negative from her past MIGHT still have ultimately disqualified her (as you suggest it should), but lying about it or omitting it ABSOLUTELY disqualified her before her past ever became an issue.

These companies get cheap and higher less capable IT workers for less money and this is the result. Home Depot, this liability will cost you far more than paying for better talent in the first place.

Eventually, this type of information will be used to crack down on people who are exceeding their "energy quota" as energy becomes increasingly scarce and the carbon credit culture becomes increasingly fascist. People will be carted off for keeping their homes too cool in summer, too hot in winter, or having drafty windows, inadequate insulation, etc. And God forbid we build a nuclear reactor or fix our decrepit energy grid. Let's build more "green" wind farms, instead. Not that I'm bitter!