THE ISSUE | Revelations that the Bush administration used taxpayer money to promote its agenda on news shows. OUR OPINION | These tactics are reprehensible and threaten the freedom of the press guaranteed in the Constitution. The term "state-run media" is normally associated with nations that control and censor its media outlets such as China and North Korea. Hopefully that term will not apply to outlets in the United States, but recent actions by the Bush administration should make all of us stand up and take notice Last week, it was revealed that the Education Department paid commentator Armstrong...