So is this Washington Post "Journalist" being paid off to do hit pieces?

[Botany]

http://www.alternet.org/story/58593/?page=1

"Reporter" John Solomon seems to be the starting point for lots of "hit pieces"
on John Edwards & Harry Reid. Now we know that Rove & company have paid off
Armstrong Williams & Maggie Gallagher along with planting stories that they then
quote so as to argue their postion(s). i.e Judy Miller So is John Solomon being paid
or does he just not like John Edwards or Harry Reid?

<The overblown "controversies" over John Edwards' $400 haircut, hedge fund work and
real estate dealings are largely the product of one reporter at the Washington Post who
hides his grudges behind "fair and balanced" journalism.>

snip

<In 2006, his last year at the AP, Solomon made a name for himself on liberal blogs and media
watching sites with sustained and poorly researched attacks on Harry Reid, who survived the
assault to become Senate majority leader in November.>

[spanone]

1. just because armstrong williams got caught doesn't mean they stopped the program

i'm sure they are paying people to propogandize, it's the rove way.

[Botany]

3. I read someplace that this admin has spent over 2 billion .....

.... in buying news and coverage. When I read that every Edwards
"bad" story .... his house, the haircut, & hedge funds had started with
Solomon I became a little hinky abou him. I wonder if he is
hooked into Creative Response Concepts?

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Yes - TPM's been watching this schmuck for a while...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007646.php
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007660.php
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008594.php
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008615.php

Do a search on TPM's site - there's MUCH more about him. He's this decade's "Steno Sue" Schmidt...:thumbsdown:

[Botany]

5. Thanx .... I need to shower.

And to think the day after the bridge falls in the Twin Cities bush,
gets a blame the dems shot out and nothing is said.

"We spent a fair amount of time talking about the fact that how disappointed we are that
Congress hasn't sent any spending bills to my desk."

Liberal Medai :rofl:

[Cleita]

4. Probably. So many of them are paid to do hit pieces on

a variety of subjects dear to the neo-cons. When I suspect propaganda, I try to find out what I can about the author and it usually points to some very right wing affiliations. For instance, one reporter wrote a hit piece on national health care that was published in a very mainstream publication that wasn't mainly focused on health care or politics. Baaaaaaaaad, he said to the unsuspecting readers. It turns out that this person was a business writer for various RW investment newsletters and he wrote this article to be placed in mainstream journals having nothing to do with business so that the propaganda could be spread to those who don't ordinarily read about health care. I think it's the Washington lobbyists for various special interests who do this. So it stands to reason that there are going to be publicists for the special interest lobbys who buy these whore journalists to use whatever credentials they have to spread rumors and propaganda, however, sensational and untrue it is. They certainly will use this method to influence elections as well.