"ABJ calls on all media outlets – radio, television and print – that feature Williams’ show, use him as a TV commentator or run his syndicated column to drop him immediately.
“I thought we in the media were supposed to be watchdogs, not lapdogs,” said NABJ Vice President-Print Bryan Monroe, assistant vice president-news at Knight Ridder. “I thought we had an administration headed by a president who took an oath to uphold the First Amendment, not try to rent it.”
This is great. But the genuinely pressing question is: Who else in the media is being paid off?
There is NO WAY that Williams is the only one. That makes no sense: he wasn't that important of a journalist, and No Child Left Behind wasn't something that Bush needed much PR help on. I think it is nearly a certainty that other right-wing journalists have gotten some tax payola. And full disclosure should be demanded from every single one of them.
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