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Monday, November 26, 2012

MONEY WASTED ON FALSE ADVERTISING WAS OUR TAX DOLLARS


Feds Spent $16B Since ’02 On Outside PR, Ads

Nov 26, 2012 12:30 pm

The government has spent more than $16 billion over the past decade on outside advertising, marketing and public relations contractors, feeding a cottage industry of inside-the-Beltway and Madison Avenue firms that help federal agencies burnish their images and tailor their messages, an investigation by the Washington Guardian and Northwestern University’s Medill News Service has found. [...]

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