I presume you mean: enter a job in mechanical turk to praise one's competitor's target, and then tip off a journalist?

Because otherwise, it's just dumb.

more like use Mechanical Turk to have 100 people leave negative comments on competitor product

That seems far more effective, since the vast majority of router buyers don't read any publication in which this story would run.

How about doing both? Hire 70 to write negative reviews, and 30 for positive. Tip off about the positive ones.

You're hired. Any relation to this fellow? http://xkcd.com/125/

Just remember to use different accounts & language between the negative & positive reviews. Either way, be really careful to anonymize your tipoff, in case it backfires.

No relation. Just years of playing Diplomacy.

Clever thinking -- that's just evil.

That is a great idea. I'd try to get the negatives from some source other than Turk though, so they couldn't be found by someone searching for info about the positives.

Why, palish, I recall a thread from yesterday in which you complained that you lacked the stuff to be a genius.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436390

I demand you recant, you evil genius, you. ;-)