Big brother is watching (Score 1)

Salon is running a story at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs /index.html that shows that the White House office of National Drug Policy, headed by Gen. Barry Mccaffrey is actually paying Hollywood to put anti-drug messages in tv shows. The networks have been payed to the tune of $25 million so far, and even go so far as to send scripts to the whitehouse to be edited for proper anti-drug messages in order to qualify for the payback from the government. Big business and big government can be equally frightening. I wonder if for example AOL-TW will use pressures on people who get linked from their combined sites to spout the company line. This Salon story is damned scary to me. Am I overreacting, or is this a portent of the future?

George W. Bush-Born with a silver spoon up his nose.