How come they couldn't slip a grand to Peggy Noonan to keep her royal Irish *ss happy?
propaganda or public relations? I say public relations comes at a cost and propaganda is a perpetual tactic to ment to overcome good public relations. So what??
Demowits are once again trying to build a house out of an ant hill.
that forbids the agency from hiring any outside expert or consultant who has any working affiliation with the media.I think people are once again, losing some perspective in all this. Simply being paid to do some work and write a report on a subject one has spent time researching makes good sense!
Let the product of their print or on-the-air work stand for iteslf, whether it's commercial sponsor like Gilette or Tide that is paying for promotional consideration or HHS to pay for research.
What say you, marketplace?
How about some stories about how the media is in the hip pocket of the Dems??? They don't do nothing for FREE!!! How much was Dan Rather paid by the DNC?
The Bush people really have some lapses in judgement. The best way for the president to get his message out is to speak to us, not waste our money hiring hacks.
Something tells me that this whole deal was a setup to marginalize conservative commentators
WOW, thanks for the pics. Michelle is so hot......
Paying off "journalists" to spread propoganda???
I guess bush and fox from mexico have been sharing notes on management.
I'm really not surprised.
Michelle rocks. But anyhow. Let's see now. These folks supported education and marriage as opposed to the promiscuity, corruption and treason of the last administration. Oh, the shame!
The first columnist's company was paid for specific ad buys, NOT to "talk up" any policy.
The second columnist was paid for research as a marraige expert.
So the first two columnists were paid for specific work product.
I know nothing about this but if an administraton wanted to gets its ideas out in the media who should they hire?
This is really stupid. Not one of these people, not Williams, not Gallagher, not McManus, not ONE, was paid to write a favorable column. Williams sold ads on his show. Galagher was hired to write some brochures. McManus was hired to do some training. I do not see one thing wrong with any of this. It's not like the old radio payola scandals, where DJ's were getting paid to play certain records. Williams has a show that was viewed by an audience the administration wanted to reach. They would have bought the ads irrespective of what he wrote. Gallagher and McManus have expertise that was needed. Nobody got paid to write columns. Sean Hannity talks about Rith's Chris steak house all of the time. they are also an advertiser on his show. Do journalistic ethics require him to recite a disclaimer every time he gives away a steak dinner, or talks about being hungry? If Mureen Dowd rides the bus to work every day, does she need a disclaimer to write a column on public transportation? Come On!
There's nothing to see here, folks. Just move along.
The government is alleged to be in bed with the media to broadcast its agenda to an unknowing people.
"I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!" exclaims a breathless Senator Clinton.
A deeply saddened Senator Kennedy drunkenly sobs, "It's all George Bush's fault!"
Tape at 11.
Developing...
You show these pics of Michelle, and people wonder why I have a hankering for Philippine women.
Sure, some Republicans have been paid to shill for the administration, but the Democrat media whores turn tricks for free.
Michael McManus? Who? Come on... Turn up Rush, Hannity or someone... McManus? Whats that!
Guess they won't be consulting MM for her expertise on immigration. She'd turn it down anyway right?
Oh how terrible. Maggie Gallagher writing brochures and essays for HHS.
Was she paid to write stuff in her column? I doubt it. Armstrong wasn't paid to talk about the education thing on his program. Yet he was portrayed by the MSM and even Michelle Malkin that he was.
That in my book is propaganda.
You know what this is going to be right? This will turn into the "major second term scandal" that everyone keeps talking about.