Newspapers to drop columnist who took cash (Abramoff)

sabra

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Mon Dec-19-05 02:30 PM
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Newspapers to drop columnist who took cash (Abramoff)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900689.html

Newspapers to drop columnist who took cash

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. newspapers said on Monday that they would no longer publish opinion pieces by a conservative commentator who has admitted taking payments from lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write op-ed pieces favorable to Abramoff's clients.

The Manchester Union Leader and the Washington Times, which run influential conservative opinion sections, said they did not know that Peter Ferrara took undisclosed payments for his op-ed pieces and did not think the activity was appropriate.

"Anybody who misrepresents or doesn't voluntarily reveal that they are being paid to write the article by an interest obviously has fallen below the standard that we would hold any published author to," said Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley.

Ferrara, a prominent advocate of Social Security reform, told BusinessWeek Online last week that he takes payments from lobbyists "all the time" to write articles favorable to their clients and did not see anything wrong with the practice.

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movonne

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Mon Dec-19-05 02:36 PM
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1. The bushes will take care of him...

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babylonsister

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Mon Dec-19-05 02:45 PM
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2. He's just another tool of the BFEE:

Peter Ferrara
Senior Policy Advisor,
Social Security and Medicare
Institute for Policy Innovation

peterferrara@msn.com
Peter Ferrara is Director of the International Center for Law and Economics and President of the Virginia Club for Growth. He served as a senior staff member in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has practiced law with firms on Wall Street and in Washington, DC. He wrote the first book for the Cato Institute providing a comprehensive intellectual foundation for a personal account option for Social Security, Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction (1980), and has continued to write on that concept in further books, studies and articles for Cato, the Heritage Foundation, the National Center for Policy Analysis, the Family Research Council, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and a wide range of other institutions and publications.

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