KILLING THE MESSENGER

"I feel like political roadkill," Karen Ryan tells the Columbia Journalism Review in a piece about how she's taking heat for being successful at her job.

Ryan happens to own a public relations firm in Washington, D.C., that has produced video segments in which she pitches products or Bush propaganda.

The problem is that literally hundreds of TV news programs have run these "reports," and for this, she's been taking a beating.

But the real blame is on the so-called journalists who run these segments because it means less work for them and ready-packaged information for their viewers.