Attacking Anwar: Journalists took secret money for critical pieces about Malaysian opposition candidate

Journalists took secret money for critical pieces about Malaysian opposition candidate – BoingBoing, March 2, 2013
The government of Malaysia hired a US PR firm to pay conservative journalists to write articles critical of a opposition leader running on a pro-democracy platform for The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The National Review, The San Francisco Examiner, Red State, and The Washington Times. The writers who took the money then wrote for their usual places, but didn’t disclose that they were getting money from a third party to criticize Anwar Ibrahim…