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U.S. Govermnet Bribing Journalists

punkbitch — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:50:23 -0800

Administration Paid Commentator (WashPost membership rqd) The Education Department paid commentator Armstrong Williams $241,000 to help promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind law on the air, an arrangement that Williams acknowledged yesterday involved "bad judgment" on his part. I'm sure y'all check the Washington Post regularly, but isn't this simply bribing a journalist?

Bush in Baghdad, Behind the Scenes

PrinceValium — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:56:07 -0800

Bush in Baghdad, Behind the Scenes. Drudge has posted Washington Post reporter Mike Allen's raw notes from the 2-day secret whirlwind trip to Iraq. It reads like a script from "The West Wing." (The stripped-down finished article appears in Friday's Post.) Meanwhile, some in the journalism field are pissed, says Howard Kurtz. Says one: "Reporters are in the business of telling the truth. They can't decide it's okay to lie sometimes because it serves a larger truth or good cause."

trioperative — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:07:39 -0800

Osama bin Laden hasn't been mentioned in a presidential speech in seven months.

crasspastor — Sat, 08 Jun 2002 02:57:37 -0800

"we're good at growing hogs, and we ought to be selling our hogs all across the world." Bush stumps at Pork Party about nixing the Estate Tax.

tamim — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:28:33 -0800

FBI focuses on McKinnon staffer Lozano in the debate tape probe.
"A federal source said the label on the Express Mail package received by Downey also directly corresponds to the date and time Lozano was filmed by a security camera mailing a package in the Austin post office." (via Washington Post)

lbergstr — Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:52:26 -0800

Bush Evades Prime-Time Debates. "Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said Bush's 'idea of the perfect debate is on Austin cable access during the Olympic finals women's gymnastics.'"