You can’t say that on television
The General Accounting Office has concluded that the White House violated propaganda laws when the Department of Health and Human Services produced prefabbed news announcements:
The GAO said the adverts broke laws forbidding public money being used for propaganda purposes.
It added that viewers would “believe that the information came from a non-government source or neutral party”.
In a report, the body said the packages were “not strictly factual news stories” and contained “notable omissions and weaknesses”.
