The Daily Background
| Administration spent 1.6 Bil on Propaganda
Filed at 4:15 pm, Tuesday February 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion.
That’s how much seven federal departments spent from 2003 through the second quarter of 2005 on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, media organizations and individuals, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
When the government spends our tax money on paid advertisements for their agenda, which masquerade as unbiased news, I call that “propaganda”. Read the full Washington Post story.
Update: Nancy Pelosi (House Democratic Leader) offers her thoughts on this.
