Hoggan cites the example of the recent Bonner and Associates/American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) scandal involving forged letters claiming to be from community groups unhappy with climate legislation and sent to members of Congress: "I've seen (Bonner and Associates) contracts where they're charging $1,800 a picket, $75 a letter. A grass roots organization doesn't do that; the people holding the pickets want to be there. The reason the $1,800-a-picket strategy works is because of lazy journalism. If journalists don't bother to ask who's paying you or to find out where the trail of money leads, they don't get the full story. And a lot of journalists don't bother.