iamhotep
01.10.05, 07:27
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush
administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of
President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative
commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to
analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability
Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the
United States, in violation of a statutory ban....
Lawyers from the accountability office, an independent nonpartisan arm of
Congress, found that the administration systematically analyzed news articles
to see if they carried the message, "The Bush administration/the G.O.P. is
committed to education..."
Sweet
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/politics/01educ.html?ex=1285819200&en=55a295038c3630e7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
