Al-Hurra Payments

Dafna Linzer and Paul Kiel follow up on their al-Hurra reporting noting that a number of media and political figures have gotten cash money from al-Hurra in exchange for appearing on the network. Now to be fair, a lot of the people who've gotten this money (David Corn, say) are hardly administration shills.

But it's an inherently problematic situation for a government-run entity to be in -- it naturally tends to build goodwill and shield the network from much-needed scrutiny.

Comments

I'm willing to throw them all over if we can destroy David Corn. Get the rat bastard!

Posted by Thomas | June 24, 2008 11:55 PM

Do media figures like Ezra get paid for being on Hardball?

Posted by Mike | June 25, 2008 12:22 AM

I have not read every article about this, but so far have not seen Karen Hughes' name in association. Was this one of her projects to benefit GOP contributor-contractors?

Posted by Hedley Lamarr | June 25, 2008 8:17 AM