Topic: WorldNetDaily
An April 4 WorldNetDaily article noting that it has "been three years since WND took the unorthodox step of banning all pop-up and pop-under ads from one of the largest Internet news sites in the world" -- actually, many popular websites don't utilize pop-up and pop-under ads -- cites as one way of "showing support" for WND: "You can also make a special donation to WND's Legal Defense Fund to help the company battle the lawsuits and threats that always accompany honest, muckraking journalism."
Nowhere is it mentioned that WND admitted, as part of settling a libel suit by Al Gore supporter Clark Jones, printing false claims about him -- which undermines its assertion that its journalism is "honest." And nowhere does WND indicate how much of each donation to its "legal defense fund" goes toward the cost of paying a presumed financial award to Jones as part of that lawsuit settlement.
C'mon, WND, be honest with your readers and potential donors -- you're begging for donations to pay for the settlement to Jones, right? Oh, and while you're at it, how about a little transparency for that legal defense fund, making public its donors and disbursements?
