{"id":208,"date":"2005-10-03T13:28:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/10\/03\/gao-bushs-department-of-ed-broke-law-with-covert-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T21:28:28","slug":"gao-bushs-department-of-ed-broke-law-with-covert-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/10\/gao-bushs-department-of-ed-broke-law-with-covert-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO: Bush&#8217;s Department of Ed broke law with covert propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush administration\/No Child Left Behind shill Armstrong Williams is back in the news as the US Government Accountability Office ruled on Friday that the secret payment of $240,000 he received from the US Department of Education from writing postive articles about NCLB constituted illegal covert propapanda.<\/p>\n<p><i>The New York Times<\/i>said the report &#8220;provided the first definitive ruling on the legality of the activities&#8230;.In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated &#8216;covert propaganda&#8217; in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US Education Department has defended its payments to Williams, saying his commentaries were &#8220;no more than the legitimate dissemination of information to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001219925\"><i>Editory &amp; Publisher<\/i><\/a> says &#8220;the GAO&#8217;s report also uncovered a previously undisclosed case in which the Education Department had commissioned a newspaper article. The article, on the &#8220;declining science literacy of students,&#8221; was distributed by the North American Precis Syndicate and appeared in numerous small newspapers around the country, according to the report in the Times. The government&#8217;s role in the writing of the article, which praised the department&#8217;s role in promoting science education, was never disclosed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush administration\/No Child Left Behind shill Armstrong Williams is back in the news as the US Government Accountability Office ruled on Friday that the secret payment of $240,000 he received from the US Department of Education from writing postive articles about NCLB constituted illegal covert propapanda. The New York Timessaid the report &#8220;provided the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}