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In the past, U.N. agencies have also sponsored "traveling seminars" for journalists so they write positive stories about U.N. projects. When conservative commentator Armstrong Williams was exposed for taking money from the Bush administration, his credibility was cast into doubt and news organizations expressed regrets for having had him on the air to comment on public policy issues. Williams was tainted by a conflict of interest that should have been revealed to the viewing audience. He was said to be a channel for Bush administration propaganda.

Is The Nation magazine being completely honest about its U.N. correspondent working for the U.N.? On its website, next to an Ian Williams column attacking John Bolton's nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., there is a little box that provides information "about Ian Williams, UN Correspondent." It says that, "In addition to his work as UN correspondent for The Nation, Ian Williams has frequently entered the lists on its behalf on a wide variety of radio and TV outlets, including Hardball, The O'Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, UN TV and many more." The listing of UN TV is new. Williams-and...

'When ya gettin' rid of him?' Tony Blair has become an embarrassment to Labour's natural allies across the Atlantic - the Democrats Mark Seddon Friday August 20, 2004 The Guardian Out on the stump in Brooklyn with Democrat Congressional hopeful Frank Barbero came a chance to talk to the footsoldiers in an election that all agree is the most important in decades. America is polarised between red and blue - or, as some Democrats whisper, between progressive America and a revived Confederacy. With George, the Vietnam vet turned transit worker, and Jeff Gold, the eternally optimistic full-time organiser, we leafleted...