need help re: paid "reporters"

[oustemnow]

Hey all,

I'm trying to round up information on the various shills who've been paid by the White House and/or the RNC to pimp the Administration's programs. There's Jeff Gannon, of course (though he was on the payroll of a wealthy GOP benefactor, whose name and roll escapes me), and Armstrong Williams, who I think was paid by the Education Department to shill for, I think, No Child Left Behind.

I seem to recall there being a few others as well. Can anyone help out with this?
Thanks in advance.

[Wonk]

1. Two good links for you

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031305Z.shtml

http://www.stopfakenews.org/

[Beaverhausen]

2. the page at MediaMatters.org

http://mediamatters.org/topics/fakenews.html

[EVDebs]

3. Operation Mockingbird, the CIA media manipulation program is 'secret'

but was exposed in the '70's during Church and Pike investigations. With payola, the money for domestic CIA operations and Army 'psy-ops' domestic operations will probably never be fully exposed.

For that you would need a Congress fed up with deception. This Congress thrives on it, to the point of self-deception.

[MountainLaurel]

4. New York Times article

On Sunday. Title is "Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News."
All about the "covert propaganda" produced by the Bushies -- official-looking "reporting" that the MSM have accepted as actual journalism, sometimes not realized that it was produced by a government contractor to promote their programs.

[mrdmk]

5. Here is the link

You do need to login, but this one is worth it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/13covert.html?th&oref=login