$240,000 of your money to propagandize for NCLB? Amazing!
There used to be a blogsite devoted to attacking pro-Administration journalists called “Media Whores Online.” It had some good material, but I thought that the title was not only vulgar but the embodiment of an unjustified accusation.
Little did I know.
There are laws against such things. I hope some people in the Administration actually go to jail for this. I note that Williams himself isn’t entirely shameless: he admits that what he did was wrong. Good for him.
Democrats in Congress, and the media, should demand from every department a full accounting of every PR contract involving someone posing as a journalist.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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