[Richard Kimball]

I'd like to see the whole story. I don't like the idea of payola. However, I also would like the full story. I don't trust the MSM, and most of the people listed are not movers and shakers. If guys who actually had persuasive power were receiving money, I might be concerned, but paying people to produce stuff for government purposes is pretty common. Most of the "Dust Bowl" pictures produced that were used to promote Franklin Roosevelt's policies were produced by people on the Federal payroll. I believe Ansel Adams produced many of his photographs of National Parks for federal dollars, and those photographs were used to promote the national parks systems. The Sierra Club makes extensive use of them.

Bottom line is, I don't like payola, but I do want to know the context of the payments before I rend my garments and cover myself with sackcloth and ashes.

[demkicker]

This is but the tip of the iceberg in media scandals. Will be interesting to watch if the MSM decides to make this into a Watergatelike scandal. When the don't, its most likely because they don't want to be outted themselves! IMO, most of the whole lot in media are sorry bought off scumbags.

[GOP_1900AD]

I would like to see it too. That said, I know there are a few (thankfully not many) dirty people still allowed to blight the GOP. We must cast them aside with abandon, and utterly disown them without appeal.

[ForGod'sSake]

I don't trust the MSM, and most of the people listed are not movers and shakers.

We're on the same page here. The odd thing about all this, is there are plenty of conservative writers out there that will, and did, take these same positions without a stipend from some agency. Although I'm not keen on the idea of gov't subsidized journalists, it looks like a tempest in a teapot from my vantage point.

FGS