{"id":3134,"date":"2007-08-15T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:08:34","slug":"your-tax-dollars-are-used-to-tell-you-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/your-tax-dollars-are-used-to-tell-you-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars Are Used to Tell You Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bush_paper_dumb_whitehouse_gov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bush_paper_dumb_whitehouse_gov.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Prepackaged News<br \/>\nBy Christopher Lee, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The 154-page report provides the most comprehensive look to date at the scope of federal spending in an area that generated substantial controversy last year. Congressional Democrats asked the GAO to look into federal public relations contracts last spring at the height of the furor over government-sponsored prepackaged news and journalism-for-sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/?q=node\/25828\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepackaged News By Christopher Lee, Washington Post How much is good press worth? To the Bush administration, about $1.6 billion. 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