This is truly unbelievable and shows my naivete. But, USA Today reports that the US Department of Education paid $240,000 to a columnist and TV talking head, Armstrong Williams, to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. This was part of a million dollar deal with the Ketchum PR firm. A million dollars to promote a government law!
And this is not the first time our government has hired PR firms to push an issue. They did it with the Medicare prescription drug plan also.
What have we come to?
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I think there is a difference between advertising to meet the needs of a voluntary army and to promote a law.
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