Ketchum, the PR firm the Department of Education hired to hire Armstrong Williams to shill for the No Child Left Behind Act, pins the blame on Williams.
“[Williams] has said numerous times that he should’ve disclosed and we agree with that,” says Lorraine Thelian, Ketchum’s senior partner in charge of North American operations. “We would assume that the commentator pundit/would disclose. That’s an assumption that you make … Whatever he did once that contract was put together, he did on his own.”
