Unspinning the U.S. Elections [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
The Center for Media and Democracy is contributing biweekly radio reports on politics and spin to "Election Unspun [3]," a daily news show put together by Pacifica Radio [4] and Free Speech Radio News [5]. CMD's first "Election Unspun" segment focuses on the public relations pros in the top tier of the Democratic presidential campaigns -- Burson-Marsteller [6]'s Mark Penn [7] on Senator Hillary Clinton [8]'s team, and David Axelrod [9] of AKP&D Message & Media [10] on Senator Barack Obama [11]'s team. Recently, another PR executive became Clinton's campaign manager -- Maggie Williams [12], who headed the Fenton Communications [13] firm after serving as Clinton's chief of staff, when she was First Lady.