“There used to be a time when our government would let the facts speak for themselves,” lamented Richard Durbin, a Democratic senator from Illinois, during one Congressional debate. “It apparently is the position of the Bush administration that the facts in and of themselves are not articulate.” This article is horrifying and disgusting at the same time. Tax money going for blatant propaganda is bad enough, but the idea that the political arm of the administration will "rank" reporters on their coverage of stories and possibly subject them to "re-education" is chilling, though it is only suggested so far, not proven. I'm with Dick Durbin--let facts speak for themselves and get PR out of government information. Another interesting angle here is how the author used the Wayback Machine (Internet archive) to investigate what Ketchum was trying to do on its web site with the "influence the influencer" application. CorpWatch: Spinning Media for Government