>From: "Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
>Subject: Drug Czar bribes the media
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:06:46 -0800
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>Editors, Washington Post:
>
>If there is any doubt how the $1 billion given to the Drug Czar to buy
>advertising to further demonize the users of some drugs was presented to the
>media, here is a direct quote from Barry McCaffrey addressing a group of
>magazine publishers last fall:
>
>"We want . . . the magazine industry to be a critical player in this effort.
>However, . . . we have yet to determine exactly how much of the roughly 
$775
>million ad dollars will go to magazines . . . . That proportion depends on
>your response." (As quoted in "The Freeman," October 1999.)
>
>This is nothing short of using tax money as bribery to control editorial
>content. It is illegal for American business to use bribes to get business;
>should it not be illegal for Cabinet officers as well?
>
>Peter McWilliams
>
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