Posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:32 PM PST by Stoat
How come they couldn't slip a grand to Peggy Noonan to keep her royal Irish *ss happy?
propaganda or public relations? I say public relations comes at a cost and propaganda is a perpetual tactic to ment to overcome good public relations. So what??
Demowits are once again trying to build a house out of an ant hill.
that forbids the agency from hiring any outside expert or consultant who has any working affiliation with the media.I think people are once again, losing some perspective in all this. Simply being paid to do some work and write a report on a subject one has spent time researching makes good sense!
Let the product of their print or on-the-air work stand for iteslf, whether it's commercial sponsor like Gilette or Tide that is paying for promotional consideration or HHS to pay for research.
What say you, marketplace?
Me Michelle squaks on this one. Sure they took sub-contracting jobs to write materials for fed brocures etc.
But there was no money for promotion-except maybe in Armstrong's case.
Why not make the integentsia 'gift' all of their free stays at the hamptons?
How about some stories about how the media is in the hip pocket of the Dems??? They don't do nothing for FREE!!! How much was Dan Rather paid by the DNC?
The Bush people really have some lapses in judgement. The best way for the president to get his message out is to speak to us, not waste our money hiring hacks.
Something tells me that this whole deal was a setup to marginalize conservative commentators
I still say, "so what?". Paid promotions and consultants have been going on since the beginning of polital-time, and they are private business arrangements, not requiring disclosure. Or is this just another precursor to more attacks on Constitutional protections???
WOW, thanks for the pics. Michelle is so hot......
Paying off "journalists" to spread propoganda???
I guess bush and fox from mexico have been sharing notes on management.
I'm really not surprised.
Michelle rocks. But anyhow. Let's see now. These folks supported education and marriage as opposed to the promiscuity, corruption and treason of the last administration. Oh, the shame!
I offered $5 bucks to Mandy Grunwald and asked her to look at a mirror I needed broken but she said she was too busy coming up with Hillary's next position shift.
Agreed, and it's particularly baffling to me because in my view, the pro-marriage initiatives of the Bush administration have been a wonderful breath of fresh air and a worthy, life-affirming thing for the Government to do that will reap benefits far in excess of it's minimal cost. The pro-marriage initiatives don't NEED any help...especially of this sort. It's a great plan as it is and can stand on it's own.
More unnecessary and completely avoidable sadness, misery and pain for everyone. "sigh"
The first columnist's company was paid for specific ad buys, NOT to "talk up" any policy.
The second columnist was paid for research as a marraige expert.
So the first two columnists were paid for specific work product.
I suppose CNN not disclosing that Begala and Carville were paid advisors for the Kerry campaign wasn't news worthy nor worth disclosing to the viewers.
I know nothing about this but if an administraton wanted to gets its ideas out in the media who should they hire?
Yeah, I don't remember seeing a disclaimer notification after each airing of "crossfire"
Not according to the DOE or Armstrong. They bought ads from his company to be played on his radio show. I've kept an open mind about Williams until I heard him today. He had a contract for $100,000+ to air specific ads on his radio show. When that expired, the DOE took out another contract for further ads. AW was NOT hired to "talk up" any policy.
They can hire anyone they wish, and pay for it out of pocket. The issue seems to be that WE paid for it with our taxes. Don't know if there's any substance to the suggestion. Maybe it's another way CFR has been sidestepped; like water flowing around a damn.
In this case I don't think that they needed to hire anyone, as the pro-marriage initiatives are wonderful and can stand on their own without any help. Beyond that, you have all sorts of Conservative columnists, talk radio hosts as well as naturally charged-up people who will simply WANT to talk positively about it because they believe in it.
Getting money mixed up with this at all was a bad idea....it was unnecessary to promote the programs and they should have known that the Left would eventually dig it up and twist it into an overblown and irrelevant scandal....twisting the facts at every opportunity. They should have known to stay miles away from anything like this, even if what they were doing was completely legal. Anyone could have told them that it was an accident waiting to happen..
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