Bush's Officials Pay Off Journalists for Phony Stories to push Agenda
Ok, now this is just pathetic!
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050129/EDITORIAL/501290302
How can any sane person believe that Bush didn't know that this was going on until now that it's leaked out to the public? Paying off journalists with large sums of cash and phony stories to push ones agenda is unethical. I don't care what your political affiliation is; this is wrong for any President. This is on par with the dictatorship that Saddam had over the Iraqi people.
Ah, government controlled news: that's not a conflict of interest, now is it?
Bush is a pimp. He is total pimp with the American Public as his bitch.
Like he didn't know it was going on.
posted by Zach Jennings @ 11:47 PM
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don't be hatin!
-phil
p.s. - i think you're right that bush knew about it. however, i don't really think it's that horrible of a thing to do. if i had a plan for education, one which i thought could save the country, and someone said they would pimp it to the public for a small piece of my bank account, i would do it, because our current education system really sucks. as far as the pro-marriage thing being pimped, that might not be so innocent if it had some anti-gay elements. not that i think that homosexuality it a proper lifestyle, but that it (the pro-marriage thing) might be targetted against a specific group. if all it's doing is encouraging people to get married, more power to him.
i think the ethics of the situation only become an issue if you are obviously going against certain people in the country. like, if the pundits encouraged their readers/viewers to segregate themselves from the jews or eskimos or whatever. darn eskimos.
No, it is unethical. A lie is a lie is a lie. Giving paid off reporters fake stories to push your agenda, no matter how righ your agenda is, is ethically wrong.
By saying that it isn't unethical, you are promoting government controlled news media. That is something most commonly found in comunist countries and countries ruled by dictators. I don't think that that is the way our free country should be run.
i'm gonna clarify. i think that lying is wrong no matter what. what i don't have a problem is if people are paid to push certain things. it happens all the time in business.
Oh, ok. I get yah. Yah, I'm ok with that too. If you read the article, they mention the fact that there are plenty of reporters on the White House pay roll.
The problem lies within the fact that these reporters were effectively bribed with large sums of cash. Then they were given false stories.
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