9.14.2006

All the news that's fit to make up

NY Times: Not only did we write a sleazy hit piece on Wal-Mart, portraying standard PR practices as sinister, but the things we wrote were blatant lies:
The Times article said that the groups and their employees had consistently failed to disclose the donations, and it said in the first paragraph that the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research was one of them. But a Manhattan Institute author had told The Times that he had indeed disclosed contributions from the Walton Foundation in an article he wrote, a fact that should have been included in the Times article.
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The article also reported that Tim Kane of the Heritage Foundation and Karl Zinsmeister, formerly of the American Enterprise Institute, were among those who wrote articles favorable to Wal-Mart after their foundations received a donation.

Both those groups were called for comment for the Times article. Mr. Kane, who was not called, subsequently said that he did not know about the Walton Family Foundation contribution and that he had criticized (emphasis added) Wal-Mart’s call for a higher federal minimum wage in an article he wrote.

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Nailed it!

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