Open and Shut?: Why I won’t be doing that video interview about open access

"Recently I was contacted by Library Journal (LJ) in connection with a series of video interviews it is conducting with open access 'VIP’s and leaders'. The first interview – with the Director of Harvard University’s Office for Scholarly Communication Peter Suber – has already been published. Would I have some time to do an interview myself, I was asked? The project is for a new section of LJ’s web site sponsored by the open access publisher Dove Press.  I liked the idea of doing a video interview but I was instinctively shy of being associated with a project that has a large Dove Press banner on the top right hand corner proclaiming it to be the 'exclusive sponsor' of the site, along with a list of featured articles with 'Sponsored by Dove Medical Press' in prominent red ink strapped across the top of each one. I felt that taking part would amount to endorsing Dove Press, which for reasons I will explain below I did not want to do ..."