{"id":68,"date":"2005-10-04T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-01-03T02:04:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T10:04:42","slug":"propaganda-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, the Bush administration has been found to be guilty<\/a> of violating the law against covert propaganda. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) made the ruling in response to the Department of Education’s initiative to pay more than $200,000.00 to Armstrong Williams to help promote the No Child Left Behind Law.<\/p>\n

“This qualifies as the production or distribution of covert propaganda,” said the GAO. “In our view, the department violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition when it issued task orders… without ensur[ing] that Mr Williams disclosed to his audiences his relationship with the department.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the second time the GAO has found the administration in violation of the law. In March 2005, the Bush Justice Department waived off the earlier finding saying that, “It did not apply<\/em>.” and could be ignored.<\/p>\n

So much for law and order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, the Bush administration has been found to be guilty of violating the law against covert propaganda. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) made the ruling in response to the Department of Education’s initiative to pay more than $200,000.00 to Armstrong Williams to help promote the No Child Left Behind Law. “This qualifies as 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],"tags":[171,173],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-education","tag-gao"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-16","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=76","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":0},"title":"Who Really Wants Truth In Broadcasting, Anyway?","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/27\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Senate Commerce Committee held hearings last week on the Truth in Broadcasting Act (S 967). 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