Sean Duffy faces backlash over Great American Road Trip show

6 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 9

The US transportation secretary said on Fox News that his family filmed the programme during a seven-month van trip across America.
Critics called it tone-deaf amid TSA staffing strains, high fuel prices and an investigation into April's fatal Air Canada crash with a fire truck at LaGuardia.
Chasten Buttigieg and others also raised ethics concerns over alleged taxpayer funding and sponsors including Boeing, while Rachel Campos-Duffy said a nonprofit paid production costs and ethics clearance was obtained.

Amidst record gas prices, what are the ethical implications of a transportation secretary's corporate-funded road trip series?

When regulated companies sponsor a secretary's TV show, how is unbiased government oversight guaranteed to the public?