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It's not just blogs. I've read about newspapers doing this sort of thing now, too. And it's old news in the computer game industry -- magazine articles on games aren't "paid for" specifically, but they're tied to advertising buys.
Reviews should be just that: reviews. They should not be contingent on whether someone has paid for them, or how much advertising they've bought, or anything else. If they are, they're advertisements, and calling them reviews is utterly dishonest.
So no, I wouldn't include reviews from any place that demands (or even accepts) payment for them, and I'd make it clear why I'm rejecting their reviews -- to the public at large, as they're in danger of being tricked into believing that's a real review, as well as the pay-to-play "reviewer".
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