maybe there's hope yet?
May. 19th, 2004 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khedronFrom the NYT, covering a story the Daily Show talked about two months ago:
(This was apparently also a violation of the "Antideficiency Act". *boggle*)
Federal law prohibits the use of Federal money for "publicity or propaganda purposes" not authorized by Congress.Why does this come up, you ask? Because the White House "distributed" a Medicare video which included a fake news story that many TV stations simply aired unadorned, as if it was theirs.
(This was apparently also a violation of the "Antideficiency Act". *boggle*)
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Date: 2004-05-20 07:35 pm (UTC)And people laugh when they say that tDS is a primary news source for some ungodly number of under-35s.
must get cable tv!
Date: 2004-05-21 04:30 am (UTC)