Vegas TV News Station Pays State Senator (R) $3K/mo to "Consult"

Nevada Lawmaker Defends $3,000-a-Month Consulting Contract With TV Station

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A state senator is defending her $3,000-a-month contract to consult with a television station on news content, including issues in the Legislature.

Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, said this week during a joint budget committee hearing that she works for Sunbelt Communications, which owns KVBC of Las Vegas. She said she has worked with the station about a year and helps with stories about education, health care and, sometimes, the Nevada Legislature.

"I'm a consultant," she told the Las Vegas Sun in an article published Friday. "They'll call me about different issues, ask me questions about health or education issues."

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4IXIYW5E.html

Here's their contact info if the spirit moves you. How many polite, reasonable people would have to contact a local news station about one story to make an impact? A dozen? Two dozen? Let's see...

http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=673080&nav=8H3e7RHq

If a media org has a cozy business relationship with the Republican politician, won't that lead to slanted coverage? Cegavske can get a voice, once removed from her, that resonates her positions.

In turn, Sunbelt Communications has access for any legislation they might profit from. The government is on their payroll!

This instance of a perverted relationship between the press and the govt is just as bad as when the govt is paying of journalists.

administration paying a reporter 200K, or planting a fake reporter in the WH press corps, or having a bunch of completely fake, staged "townhall meetings" filled with shills to pimp dismantling Social Security.

Kinda like those things.

Consultant? At $36,000 a year? While not fulltime executive money that's not bad coin for "answering a call". Where do I get me one of these jobs?

divorce yourself from any system of ethics that might encumber you.