Comments on: Bush Team Chided for Propaganda Policies

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:43:48 +0000

Anti-terror funding in the SF Bay area will be cut about 10 million dollars this year by the Bush admin. Guess buying off columnists is more important than protecting the lives of US citizens.

By: Noel

Noel — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:02:17 +0000

I admire Armstrong tremendously, but as a proponent of small government, he shouldn't have taken the money. That said, this is standard practice and hundreds of liberal groups get tax-payers funds for similar "get-out-the-message" or other "services". Witness public service announcements, most of which have a liberal tilt, or the money recieved by Planned Parentlessness or PBS to name but a few. Calls for an investigation are hooey. We should just defund all of them...but we won't.

By: Davod

Davod — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:43:01 +0000

What is and what is not propoganda. It seems to me that the government is caught no matter what it does. How is the government to get its message out. I remember the crys that a. the medicare presvription drug ploicy was no good and also that the government did not do enough to get its message out. The same for No Child Left Behind. The media is not always sympathetic to the governments policies. Therefore the message does not get out, hence policy is purported to be a failure.

By: The American Mind

The American Mind — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 02:05:55 +0000

Armstrong Williams and Breeding Cynicism
Armstrong Williams hasn't been in my reading mix for years because he was pretty dull. Now, we find out the...

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 00:44:03 +0000

White House Paid A Commentator To Argue Its Case
No matter how you slice it, dice it, and try to finesse it , in

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:43:15 +0000

i'm personally pretty concerned about the Armstrong Williams move. I don't recall anything about this coming out in the news. Was he mentioning the payment prior to the interviews with Paige? If we're going to hold regular media to standards of transparency and accountability, the same should hold true for commentators like Williams.