NEW YORK - The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has become the latest newspaper to ban a conservative columnist from its opinion pages in a widening payola scandal.
In an editorial today, the paper said it would no longer print the prose of Doug Bandow, the former Cato Institute scholar who admitted last week that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing articles favorable to his clients.
Bandow resigned from the libertarian Cato Institute after the revelations and was suspended by Copley News Service, the syndicate that distributed his work to newspapers across the country.
The Tribune-Review editorial, titled "Doug Bandow, paid shill," stated flatly that “the prose of Doug Bandow never will appear on these pages again.”
I don't know if Doug Bandow sold out or if he believed the things he wrote and found a way of taking the extra money.
ReplyDeleteSince the appearance was that he sold out, he had to go.
He will be missed.