Following the Armstrong Williams ($240,000 from the department of education to shill for George W's "No Child Left Behind") and Maggie Gallagher ($40,000 from the government to shill for Bush's "strengthening marriage") revelations, Jim Hightower at AlterNet has a good question about the media payola scandal:
It takes two to play the payola game - the corrupters as well as the corruptees. What we have here is Bush & Company routinely and cynically using your and my tax dollars to use the media to propagandize you and me. Where's the accountability for these corrupters? Which agency officials are diverting our tax funds into propaganda? Which Bush operative devised this system? And why aren't all of these Bushites being publicly castigated... and fired?
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