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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You're only willing to fault the administration for spending money, but you're being obtuse about the differences between how money is spent. Do you not see a difference between, e.g., the Pentagon spending $10,000 on avionics equpment for a helicopter, and the Pentagon spending $10,000 to pay FOX not to run unfavorable stories? Of course you can. Spending government money on PR firms is one thing; spending it to buy favorable coverage from a journalist is quite another. Much of what PR firms do is entirely legitimate, but the latter smacks of fraud -- it's deceiving people.
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For the umpteenth time, I agree with you on this issue. Can we move on?
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And Kos is not a journalist. Never claimed to be. The harder case, IMHO, is the South Dakota bloggers who pretending to be independent but in fact were on the payroll of the Thune campaign. Even there, though, most of us get that there is a difference between someone who holds themself out as a journalist and someone who just starts putting stuff up on a web page.
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Well that begs the question - what is a journalist? Or are you saying he's just an editorialist? If so, I think an editorialist should be held to the same conflicts standard - he or she just doesn't have to be objective.
