Won't pay columnists to promote policies, Bush vows
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush vowed yesterday that his administration will stop paying newspaper columnists and pundits to back its policies after the second right-wing commentator in a month acknowledged receiving a contract from a government agency to help promote one of its policies.
Ms. Gallagher also wrote a report titled Can Government Strengthen Marriage? for which she is reported to have received another $20,000, paid indirectly by the Justice Department.
There "needs to be a nice independent relationship between the White House and the press, the administration and the press," Mr. Bush acknowledged yesterday.
Молодец президент, и пить смог бросить и может деньги налогоплатильщиков перестанет журналистам платить.
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