I misjudged you, Armstrong
You didn't go into denial when you got caught. At you were smart enough not to sell out cheap...you knew from the different treatment Jason Blair and Stephen Glass received, from Mike Barnicle writing...today...for the NY Daily News after getting fired by the Boston Globe for plagiarism while Patricia Smith writes for no one after resigning from the same newspaper for the same crime, that if you got caught like so many others have you'd be out of journalism.
Quote of note:
"Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it?" Gallagher said yesterday. "I don't know. You tell me."
Fine, I'll tell you.
Yes. (See how easy that was?) But apparently it's not a violation of Republican political operative ethics.
And I gotta raise up offa Howie Kurtz for 15-20 minutes for reporting this.
Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2005; Page C01
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."
But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal. Her work under the contract, which ran from January through October 2002, included drafting a magazine article for the HHS official overseeing the initiative, writing brochures for the program and conducting a briefing for department officials.
