Wages of spin: Columnist Doug Bandow resigned Tuesday from Copley News Service, according to Editor&Publisher. Bandow had been under fire for accepting payola from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write op-ed pieces favorable to some of Abramoff’s clients.
Bandow had previously resigned from the Cato Institute last Thursday after admitting he took bribes — a transgression first revealed by BusinessWeek.com. Bandow said he accepted money to write 12-24 pieces starting in the mid-1990s. He received $2,000 for some of the commentaries.
The now-former Copley columnist is one of several conservative commentators who, in a series of 2005 revelations, were found to have accepted money to promote programs and initiatives without disclosing the funding. They include Armstrong Williams of Tribune Media Services (which dropped Williams), Maggie Gallagher of Universal Press Syndicate, and the self-syndicated Michael McManus.
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