'Pittsburgh Tribune-Review' Drops Payola Pundit Doug Bandow (Abramoff)

sabra

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:48 AM
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'Pittsburgh Tribune-Review' Drops Payola Pundit Doug Bandow (Abramoff)

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001701024

'Pittsburgh Tribune-Review' Drops Payola Pundit Doug Bandow

NEW YORK The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has become the latest newspaper to ban a conservative columnist from its opinion pages in a widening payola scandal.

In an editorial today, the paper said it would no longer print the prose of Doug Bandow, the former Cato Institute scholar who admitted last week that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing articles favorable to his clients.

Bandow resigned from the libertarian Cato Institute after the revelations and was suspended by Copley News Service, the syndicate that distributed his work to newspapers across the country.

The Tribune-Review editorial, titled "Doug Bandow, paid shill," stated flatly that �the prose of Doug Bandow never will appear on these pages again.�

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SteppingRazor

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:50 AM
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1. I'm a little shocked, given the paper's ownership...

I mean, when you work for Richard Mellon Scaife, aren't you a paid shill anyway, by definition?

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Tue Dec-20-05 10:56 AM
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2. Yeah right...

They must be up to their ass with Abramoff if Scaife is shying away. I smell trouble...

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chat_noir

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Tue Dec-20-05 11:37 AM
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3. Peter Ferrara: add him to the list

On Monday, The Manchester Union Leader and the Washington Times both said that they would no longer publish opinion pieces by Peter Ferrara, another conservative commentator who has admitted taking money from Abramoff. Ferrara was a senior policy adviser at the conservative Institute for Policy Innovation, and had a high profile in the recent Social Security debate.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001701024

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