Today on October 3, 2005 I found out from Lamar Advertising of Baton Rouge, that a "Private" donation (an individual) from rural Louisiana funded this series of Bush Advertisements which ran along Interstate I-10 @ College Drive in Baton Rouge, La during the month of July 2005. This is the major hub where traffic in Baton Rouge is backed up for hours ever day.
Given that the Bush administration has now been found to be "Buying News" illegally, is this form of advertising acceptable? The Bush administration could design an ad and get anyone to pay for it and we would never know the difference. Just like Payola in the music industry. What if they put up abortion ad's? The other ad that goes with this one was with a Cross erected from 911 steel beams with a flag and some firemen.
Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 1, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/politics/01educ.html
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