U.S. Paid Many Journalists

REPORT: US PAID MANY JOURNALISTS
[SOURCE: Miami Herald, AUTHOR: Casey Woods cwoods@MiamiHerald.com]
Nationally and internationally known journalists for English-language newspapers and magazines have "for many, many years" received payment from the U.S. government to appear on Voice of America radio programs, El Nuevo Herald reports. Among them have been a nationally syndicated columnist, a former opinion page director for The Washington Times and the Washington bureau chief for the Hartford Courant of Connecticut. The El Nuevo Herald article followed a Miami Herald article published Friday that disclosed that at least 10 South Florida journalists, including three from El Nuevo Herald, have been regularly paid by the U.S. government to participate in programs on Radio and TV Martí. Spokesmen for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the federal entity that oversees the federal government's television and radio stations, told El Nuevo Herald that such payments did not pose a conflict of interest.
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