{"id":189,"date":"2005-01-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/05\/more-transparency\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:28:51","slug":"more-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/more-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"More transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp; Education Dept. paid commentator Wiliams $241,000 to promote the administration&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/nclb\/landing.jhtml?src=pb\"><strong>No Child Left Behind <\/strong><\/a>law. Only problem is that he didn&#8217;t tell viewers or anyone else that he was on the&nbsp; payroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-01-09-williams_x.htm\">Media distributor severs ties with commentator<br \/><\/a><br \/><em>WASHINGTON \u2014 Armstrong Williams, who was paid by the Education<br \/>\nDepartment to promote President Bush&#8217;s education policies, says the<br \/>\npublic outcry and his firing by the company that syndicated his<br \/>\nnewspaper column are &quot;the price you pay&quot; for a mistake.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>updates: Jay Rosen, of <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/\">Pressthink<\/a>, weighs in on the Ketchum\/Williams affair: <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2005\/01\/19\/ktch_pr.html\">Bloggers Are Missing in Action as Ketchum Tests the Conscience<br \/>\nof PR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Maybe this is the way things are done all the time in PR today. It&#8217;s one of the most plausible explanations we have for the Ketchum contract, the apparent fraudulence of which is roughly parallel to the memos in the Dan Rather case.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp; Education Dept. paid commentator Wiliams $241,000 to promote the administration&#8217;s No Child Left Behind law. Only problem is that he didn&#8217;t tell viewers or anyone else that he was on the&nbsp; payroll. Media distributor severs ties with commentatorWASHINGTON \u2014 Armstrong Williams, who was paid by the Education Department to promote President Bush&#8217;s education policies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}