Report: Armstrong Williams Not the Only DOE-Paid Pundit (E&P)

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054953

More of which the Chimp can be proud. :eyes:

Excerpt:

NEW YORK The federal Department of Education secretly paid various education-advocacy groups to produce Op-Ed columns, ads, and other material, according to a new report issued by the DOE's Inspector General.

This means that former Tribune Media Services columnist Armstrong Williams wasn't the only person writing for newspapers while receiving DOE money.

The report said The Dallas Morning News, The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, the Mobile (Ala.) Register, and The Grand Island (Neb.) Independent were among the papers that published government-funded Op-Eds whose authors failed to disclose this financial sponsorship, according to Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). Separately, Miller's office also determined that additional opinion articles ran in papers such as The New York Sun.