General Accountability Office's David Walker ...Gannongate investigation ?

[EVDebs]

In light of past abuses of government sponsored 'journalism', you would think that the GAO would be interested in Gannon/Guckert abuses also.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/politics/19gao.html?ex=1109480400&en=9686cc137fcaf872&ei=5070

""In fact, it has become increasingly common for federal agencies to adopt the public relations tactic of producing "video news releases" that look indistinguishable from authentic newscasts and, as ready-made and cost-free reports, are sometimes picked up by local news programs. It is illegal for the government to produce or distribute such publicity material domestically without disclosing its own role....

The two best-known cases of such video news releases - one concerning the new Medicare law, the other an antidrug campaign by the Bush administration - drew sharp rebukes from the G.A.O. after separate investigations last year found that the agencies involved had violated the law.

Those cases were followed by disclosures that the government had paid at least one conservative commentator, Armstrong Williams, to promote the administration's No Child Left Behind education measure and had put two other conservative writers on the federal payroll to help develop programs. These episodes have prompted calls from Democrats for stricter oversight of the administration's publicity practices, which have cost millions of dollars of federal revenue.""

What Gannon/Guckert was doing is along these same 'faux news' lines and if the President had foreknowledge of Gannon/Guckert, well...you can ask the next question of him even if the media won't.

[blue4barb]

1. GAO has an investigation on-going on election "irregularities"

thanks to John Conyers. A second one on Gannongate-- and why stop there? I think this admin deserves the trifecta.

[zann725]

2. Good analogy! A RICOH "Trifecta."

n/t

[EVDebs]

3. The people deserve all the facts, not just Bush admin propaganda

Also, the military benefits from the truth since all the useless DoD spending can be redirected or eliminated altogether. Enlistments go up when the truth of situations gets told, it seems to me.

"Truth, Justice, and The American Way", when was the last time you heard that and really believed it ? Not since November 22, 1963 for me at least. What the heck has gone wrong since then...

[McCamy Taylor]

4. They could but I think the Dems want to question Gannon in CSPAN...

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