A business news website notes [3], "Since early summer Wendell Potter [4], a former public relations executive for the health insurer CIGNA [5], has testified before Congress, given speeches and granted interviews aimed at boosting the cause of health care reform and especially a strong public alternative to private industry. He's done it with the backing of Center for Media and Democracy [6], a progressive-leaning watchdog that seeks to expose and counteract business and government PR [7] campaigns. Since CMD appointed him Senior Fellow on Health Care [8] earlier this year, Potter has been busy. Time magazine profiled him in September -- and President Obama alluded to some of his comments (though not naming him) in his televised national health care speech to Congress Sept. 9. ... In one mid-September weekend Potter turned up on shows with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, CNN's Anderson Cooper, HBO's Bill Maher -- even Fox Business News. He shows little sign of letting up [9]. 'I have never ever seen somebody get the sort of media attention that Wendell has,' says CMD founder John Stauber [10]. Potter's story is probably the biggest reason. Time called him 'the ideal whistleblower [11].'"