"The Madison County Shill"

CJR Daily brings us a story from the world of "tort reform":

The Washington Post reports today that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has created a newspaper, the Madison County [Ill.] Record, that bills itself as a legal journal, and focuses on the unusually large number of class-action lawsuits filed in the county. Nowhere in its pages does the paper disclose that it was created, and is in part owned, by the Chamber.

Do you suppose that they added the associated cost to their budget because Edwardsville look so pretty and they want to help out the economy of small town America?