The 3rd Quarter 1994 issue of PR Watch featured an article by Sheldon Rampton titled "Hustling for the Junta: PR Fights Democracy in Haiti." Now that Aristide has been removed from power by force for a second time, we've added the 3rd Quarter 1994 issue to our online archives. We've also added the text of the article to our Disinfopedia, where you can edit it yourself if you wish to add new information.

"When George W. Bush and members of his administration talk about environmental policy, the phrase 'sound science' rarely goes unuttered," Chris Mooney writes in the Washington Post. "On issues ranging from climate change to the storage of nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain, our president has assured us that he's backing up his decisions with careful attention to the best available research. ... It all sounds noble enough, but the phrases 'sound science' and 'peer review' don't necessarily mean what you might think. Instead, they're part of a lexicon used to put a pro-science veneer on policies that most of the scientific community itself tends to be up in arms about. In this Orwellian vocabulary, 'peer review' isn't simply an evaluation by learned colleagues. Instead, it appears to mean an industry-friendly plan to require such exhaustive analysis that federal agencies could have a hard time taking prompt action to protect public health and the environment. And 'sound science' can mean, well, not-so-sound science."

Britons continue to debate the Blair government's now-discredited claim that Iraq was 45 minutes away from launching chemical or biological weapons. Glenn Frankel and Rajiv Chandrasekaran British review in detail the history of the 45-minute claim and Blair's failure to "disclose that the claim had come secondhand from a single, uncorroborated source, and that some of the government's own experts believed it was questionable."

A Seattle forum on "Fixing Radio" focused on the fallout from Janet Jackson's exposed breast and Clear Channel Communications' suspension of Howard Stern. (Clear Channel executives were shocked, shocked to discover that Stern's show features sexually explicit talk.) But panelist Bruce Wirth of KBCS 91.3 FM commented, "What I think is really indecent is that we're focusing on this and Janet Jackson's (breast) ... We're obsessed about sex when the same stations like Clear Channel were out there rah-rahing a war that has wound up killing hundreds of American soldiers, not to mention Iraqi civilians. Now that's indecent. We're so obsessed about sex in this country, and the typical strategy of the right is to divert our attention to sex issues."