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To: one_less who wrote (92820)	1/8/2005 1:45:44 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 108807

In my own words? At this hour that would not make much sense, I don't think. So I will also pull something from the article. Basically the lying is that Williams purports to be a news reporter, but actually is being paid to promote a certain point of view, and so is misleading and engaging in propaganda. The Bush administration faced the similar charges over ads related to the Medicare drug benefit, I believe, where a paid interviewer pretended to be an objective news reporter: "I respect Mr. Williams' statement that this is something he believes in," said Bob Steele, a media ethics expert at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. "But I would suggest that his commitment to that belief is best exercised through his excellent professional work rather than through contractual obligations with outsiders who are, quite clearly, trying to influence content." The contract may be illegal "because Congress has prohibited propaganda," or any sort of lobbying for programs funded by the government, said Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "And it's propaganda."

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