CNET's Declan McCullagh has an interesting article on a shadowy lobbying group named the Law Media Group (LMG). The group works for clients like Comcast and Microsoft ghost writing pseudo-objective editorials for the nation's largest papers and websites, and forging bogus consumer-centric coalitions tasked with supporting client positions with farmed statistics. Comcast used LMG heavily during the network neutrality and throttling debate, while Microsoft has used the group to attack Google. While astroturf (bogus grass roots and fake consumer advocacy) is nothing new, LMG is a particularly secretive player, and McCullagh's article is a great read for anybody interested in K street and disinformation/propaganda.