Don’t sell out our profession

[struggle4progress]

Posted on Thu, Jan. 27, 2005
John Baer | A plea to my brethren: Don’t sell out our profession

<snip> Syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams (Tribune Media Services) got $241,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to promote Bush's No Child Left Behind law.

Now we learn syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher (Universal Press Syndicate) got $21,500 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to promote Bush's "healthy marriages" proposal.

And Editor & Publisher, the nation's oldest reporter on the newspaper industry, says syndicated columnist Charles Kraut-hammer (Washington Post Writers Group) consulted on Bush's inaugural speech, then praised it on TV's Fox News without mentioning the consulting. <snip>

Lehigh University journalism prof Jack Lule says, "There are many gray areas in journalism, but this is not one of them. You can't take money or do work for anybody you report on, and it should be very clear, very black and white." <snip>

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10745064.htm

[EVDebs]

1. Too late. Operation Mockingbird and in 2000 the 'CNN and Psyops' story

shows that MSM are already 'bought and paid for'.