I was just reading the salary list from the White House and noticed several people who serve without getting any pay. I didn’t recognize the names offhand, but, five minutes later, I stumbled on this post by Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com, who points out that one of those unpaid advisers has been blogging at The Washington Post, which has never mentioned her connection to Obama:
In other words, the Washington Post allowed someone connected to the Obama administration to write opinion columns in its blog section without ever revealing her connection to the administration. That conflicts with the Post’s ethics policy, as Byrne notes, which considers undeclared connections to government “the most objectionable” of conflicts of interest. The Post has allowed the Obama White House to have a shill presenting propaganda without ever informing its readers of her connection.
So much for a commitment to transparency, by the Obama White House AND The Washington Post.
