Know your writers' agendas and disclose them.

The Masthead | March 22, 2005 | Copyright

Columnist Armstrong Williams touched off furious discussions about ethics in newsrooms across the country.

Tribune Media Services terminated his contract when it learned Williams was under contract with the Bush administration agency to promote its No Child Left Behind education law. USA Today reported Williams took two hundred forty thousand dollars to promote education reform on his TV and radio shows.

Editor & Publisher also reported that Williams also had discussed the law four times in 2004.

Journalists were near unanimous about this most ...

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