Another rightwing pundit has been dropped by a media outlet after it was revealed that he was taking payments from private interests in exchange for columns.
Who was the corporate paymaster this time? Monsanto.
Scripps Howard News Service (SHNS) announced Friday that it severed its relationship with Michael Fumento -- a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute -- for taking payments in 1999 from agribusiness giant Monsanto. The payola was revealed by BusinessWeek Online, which also broke the story that columnist Doug Bandow had accepted bribes from Jack Abramoff. Copley News Service subsequently dropped Bandow.
Incidentally, if any wealthy interests out there are interested in a column about, say, the evils of suburbia, drop me an email and I'll send you my rates.
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Tom Philpott Posted 8:59 am
13 Jan 2006
Fumento also points out that he criticized Monsanto publicly in a 1999 Forbes magazine column, calling the company "chicken-hearted" for caving in to pressure from environmentalists to terminate a seed program.
That's good stuff. With harsh critics like Fumento on the loose, I guess I can go back to just farming.
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Biodiversivist Posted 2:06 pm
13 Jan 2006
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com
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