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Nader.org: The Best Coverage Money Can Buy (9/28/07) by Ralph Nader
The overblown controversy about MoveOn.org purchasing ad space in the New York Times lends added relevance to a rare Wall Street Journal ad space purchase by the National Association of Manufacturers. "It occurred to" lifelong corporate critic Nader "why they purchased the ad" even though "month after month in hundreds of loyal editorials, the Journal’s editorial writers already have been conveying the cravings and demands of this trade association":The editorials argue for more “clean” coal and nuclear power.... So does the NAM.... The Journal’s rigid ideologues demand less regulation.... So does the NAM. The NAM wants further reduction of the already reduced corporate tax rate.... So also demands the big business echo chamber on the Journal’s editorial pages.... And so it goes. Such a symbiotic relationship! Big business members of NAM pour millions of dollars in ads daily into the Wall Street Journal. In return, the dutiful and gleeful editorial writers deliver the screeds that caress the brows and deepen the pockets of the CEOs.
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