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NEWSHOUNDS.

Publication: The New Yorker
Publication Date: 28-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1152 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: NEWSHOUNDS.(The Talk of the Town)

Article Excerpt
"Mr. President," George W. Bush was asked at a press conference on January 26th, "do you think it's a proper use of government funds to pay commentators to promote your policies?"

"No," the President replied. "I expect my cabinet secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward," he elaborated. "Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet. I'm confident you'll be, over the course of the next four years, willing to give our different policies an objective look--won't you?" Then came the smirk, which has been making a post-election comeback. "Yes, I can see that."

The assurance, if not the smirk, was in order, because, until "that practice" came to light, using government funds to pay commentators to promote the Administration's policies seems to have been very much on its agenda. As USA Today had revealed a couple of weeks earlier, Armstrong Williams, a syndicated columnist (until his syndicate dropped him) and frequent cable-news talking head, got two hundred and forty-one thousand dollars from...

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