Exhibit 860 ยท Legal decision
Department of Education - No Child Left Behind Act Video News Release and Media Analysis, B-304228
the Department's prepackaged news story constitutes covert propaganda and violates the publicity or propaganda prohibition.
Finds a Ketchum-produced video news release on tutoring under No Child Left Behind (paid $38,421.06) covert propaganda, rejecting the Department's argument, based on a 30 July 2004 Office of Legal Counsel opinion, that a factual story need not disclose its source. Finds a media analysis (paid $96,850.99) lawful except that one report assessed whether 'the Bush Administration/the GOP is committed to education.'
- Source
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Date
- 30 September 2005
- Quoted from
- Opinion, p. 5
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.gao.gov/products/b-304228
- Archived
- https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://www.gao.gov/assets/b-304228.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
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