The Washington Post reports that "In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families... But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal. Her work under the contract, which ran from January through October 2002, included drafting a magazine article for the HHS official overseeing the initiative, writing brochures for the program and conducting a briefing for department officials."
Another one, eh? This is despicable and low even for these people to be running these kinds of propoganda campaigns. I hope this ruins Gallagher's career, and the FCC investigates such contracts.
It was always strikes me funny the similiarties between Republican administrations and the Soviet Union...
UPDATED: And another one!; Senators file legislation to stop it
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Honestly, do these people have no standards whatsoever? Cannot they not even recognize the conflict of interest, and the violation of ethical standards taking place here? But, since journalistic ethics aren't "moral values", who cares, right?
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