The televised interview with John Walters, the White House drug tsar, ran on hundreds of local stations before the 2004 Super Bowl. "Many parents admit they're still not taking the drug [marijuana] seriously," explained the news anchor. "Mike Morris has more." It ended with the usual sign-off: "This is Mike Morris reporting." It looked like a news report, and quacked like a news report. But it was not one. The segment had been produced by Mr Walters's Office of National Drug Control Policy. The apparently independent Mr Morris was on contract to the government.
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