Les Jones: Scripps Howard Sacks Michael Fumento

January 15, 2006

News > Scripps Howard Sacks Michael Fumento

From Tim Lambert via SayUncle, Scripps Howard News Service has canned Michael Fumento for not disclosing that he took a $60,000 payment from Monsanto for a 1999 book he wrote. I don't care who you are - not disclosing where you get your money from is unethical. If you want to take the money from whomever - Monsanto, Greenpeace, the National Institutes of Health - that's fine - just tell your readers and let them decide if it's a legitimate source of funding or a payoff. If you're afraid to disclose the payment because it might impair your credibility then it probably is a payoff.

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Think hard about everyone you've accepted money from and then ask if you'd like to be sacked because of who it was. You think you're honest and everyone else says you're toast.

Posted by: Schiller at January 15, 2006

Not to be sanctimonious, but I think I'd remember getting $60,000 from Monsanto. I mean, I'm not rich enough that a single $60,00 check would be a small thing. That's no small amount of coin. And if he had just disclosed it it wouldn't have been a problem, but he didn't.

Posted by: Les Jones at January 15, 2006

The term presstitute comes to mind.

Posted by: Glenn at January 21, 2006