] The General Accounting Office concluded that the
] Department of Health and Human Services illegally spent
] federal money on what amounted to covert propaganda by
] producing videos about the Medicare changes that were
] made to look like news reports. Portions of the videos,
] which have been aired by 40 television stations around
] the country, do not make it clear that the announcers
] were paid by HHS and were not real reporters.

[ Mixed feelings on this one. I think there are more important problems with the medicare plan, like the fact that it's very likely gonna cost 530 billion, not 400 billion among others. I haven't seen this particular segment, so i can't say how misleading it is. The GAO believes it is though.... -k]