On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:32:17 -0500, dxAce wrote:



Joel Rubin wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:35:05 -0500, dxAce wrote:

Heads roll...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in665727.shtml

Told ya so....

CBS = See BS, and hear it on radio too.

Perhaps that goes with Sinclair Broadcasting's running "Stolen Honor"
just before election day and the White House paying off Armstrong
Williams to tout "No Child Left Behind"?

Hey, butt****... did those funds come from the White House?

The answer is no, butt****... get your story straight...

Don't forget to wipe...

dxAce
Michigan
USA



Apparently not even Sinclair Broadcasting cannot totally swallow
Williams. The Bush White House is not responsible for funds paid by
the Dept. of Education to a commentator?

The Mayor of New York recently arranged to have the somewhat
independent Board of Education terminated and made into a City
department so he could have power and BE HELD RESPONSIBLE for the
schools. A head of government is held responsible for the actions of
departments of government.

If you have something like the USPS or the Federal Reserve Board or
the BBC which is not under the direct control of the government in
power then that's a different story.

By the way, wasn't there a big shtunk in Canada over government-funded
propaganda? Of course, the Congressional fear of Government-funded
internal propaganda is why the VOA, under its charter, can't send a
schedule to Des Moines and why it needed a law to allow that VOA film
about JFK to be seen in the U.S.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...ryID=7289 256

Sinclair Investigates Commentator Williams
Tue Jan 11, 2005 03:49 AM ET

By Andrew Wallenstein

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Television station owner Sinclair
Broadcast Group is conducting an internal inquiry into an appearance
made on one of its news programs by political pundit Armstrong
Williams.

Williams admitted last week he received more than $240,000 from the
Department of Education to promote its No Child Left Behind
initiative, a relationship he did not disclose to networks where he
had discussed the subject, including CNN, as well as in his newspaper
column syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Tribune has since
terminated his column.

Barry Faber, general counsel for Sinclair, a station group with
holdings in 39 U.S. markets, disclosed that Williams was under
contract last year as an independent consultant to the company and is
believed to have interviewed Education Secretary Rod Paige on a
Sinclair-produced nightly news program, "News Central," about No Child
Left Behind. But he asserted that Sinclair had no knowledge of
Williams' relationship with the Education Department.

"Our news department is reviewing whether there was anything
inappropriate that aired on our station," said Faber, who added that
the contract with Williams has since expired. He could not specify the
date of Williams' interview with Paige.