{"id":64,"date":"2005-09-07T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-01-03T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T10:01:45","slug":"more-paid-propaganda-from-bushco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"More Paid Propaganda From BushCo."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Education has not learned its lesson<\/a> about payola and propaganda. After having been caught greasing the palms of Armstrong Williams<\/a>, the DOE has just been slapped by its Inspector General for improperly paying “…education advocacy groups to produce newspaper opinion pieces, advertisements, and other public materials that reached audiences all over the country without revealing that the government paid for their production and distribution.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The IG fell short of calling this propaganda what it is because, he said, the Department did not, “…intend for these organizations and individuals to mislead the public.”<\/em> Apparrently they just intended for these organizations to publish stories that promoted controversial administration policies without disclosing that they were working for the administration. That isn’t the least bit misleading, is it?<\/p>\n

Representative George Miller (D-CA), plans to demand the Department recoup tax dollars that were unlawfully spent. He also has an impressive collection of links to other improper activities, with regard to the media, by BushCo. at this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Education has not learned its lesson about payola and propaganda. After having been caught greasing the palms of Armstrong Williams, the DOE has just been slapped by its Inspector General for improperly paying “…education advocacy groups to produce newspaper opinion pieces, advertisements, and other public materials that reached audiences all over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8,13],"tags":[171,172],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","tag-education","tag-george-miller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Propaganda Marches On","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/4\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, the Bush administration has been found to be guilty of violating the law against covert propaganda. 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