More fake news: WH drug control office issued fake news tapes

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Drug Control Office Faulted For Issuing Fake News Tapes
By Ceci Connolly - Washington Post

Shortly before last year's Super Bowl, local news stations across the country aired a story by Mike Morris describing plans for a new White House ad campaign on the dangers of drug abuse.

What viewers did not know was that Morris is not a journalist and his "report" was produced by the government, actions that constituted illegal "covert propaganda," according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54651-2005Jan6.html

[Beetwasher]

1. This is Not The First Time Either

They've already been busted for this I seem to remember...

[TacticalPeek]

2. MacCaffrey, DEA etc, exposed in 2000, payola to networks.

http://www.reconsider.org/tidbits/2000-01-29%20%20Funny%20op-ed.htm

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3. there was a story last year about corporations doing this as well

corporations, the Bush admin, same damned thing

[Josh]

4. Yep. They did it for the Medicare bill

They just said, "It's just part in the latest types of media communication." To which Jon Stewart said, "Yeah, it's all right there in the handbook," and flashed up a picture of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

[indepat]

5. Just point our their mistakes and they will correct their ways