http://www.metafilter.com/tags/maggiegallagher Posts tagged with 'maggiegallagher' at MetaFilter. Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:34:14 -0800 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:34:14 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38996/Journalistic%2DEthics <a href="http://www.uexpress.com/maggiegallagher/">"If a scholar or expert gets paid to do some work for the government, should he or she disclose that if he writes a paper, essay or op-ed on the same or similar subject?</a> If this is the ethical standard, it is an entirely new standard." So says syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher, defending against <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36545-2005Jan25.html?sub=AR">revelations and accusations</a> by Howard Kurtz of the <i>Washington Post</i> (warning: reg required) that she neglected to disclose that she was paid by the <a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/">Administration for Children and Families Home Page</a> (part of the Department of Health and Human Services) for consulting work inteded to promote the Administration's "pro-marriage" policies in 2002. Gallagher took a pro-Administration stance repeatedly in her column that same year. Gallagher ultimately cops out with, "I should have disclosed a government contract when I later wrote about the Bush marriage initiative. I would have, if I had remembered it." After Armstrong Willaims got caught with his pants down, is "honesty" old and busted, and "I don't remember" the <a href="http://www.freepress.org/doit.php?strFunc=display&strID=186&strYear=2005">new hotness</a>? <size small>(via <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2112684/">tp</a>)</size> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38996 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:34:14 -0800 armstrongwilliams corruption howardkurtz journalism maggiegallagher marriage mkultra