Pentagon Pundit Scandal on YouTube
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Pushing Back Against the Pentagon's Pundits
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In addition to helping research the "Pentagon's pundits" on SourceWatch -- those retired military officers who took part in the Pentagon program to promote Bush Administration talking points on the Iraq and Afghanistan war
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Audit Reveals the PR Machine Behind Canadian Global Warming Skeptics
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An audit review (pdf) of over $507,000 (Canadian) contributed to two University of Calgary "research accounts" has revealed that C$123,427 was routed to Friends of Science (FoS) -- a group lobbying the Canadian government against taking action on global warming.
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Bad Times for Freedom's Watch
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The Freedom's Watch Louisiana ad
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A Defense of Even Faker News
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Reed Pence of MediaTracks Communications wants his fellow public relations professionals to know there's nothing wrong with "guaranteed placement" -- paying to have radio or television stations air fake news. "Many PR pros face the challenge of acquiring coverage for a product that isn't newsworthy," he writes in a letter to PR Week. "Some believe that [guaranteed placement] is just advertising," but it's not, he claims.
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PR Week letters, April 14, 2008
Penn's Paycheck
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For Mark Penn, who recently resigned as Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist, the campaign "has been about as effective an economic stimulus program for himself as anything his clients have ever proposed for the nation," reports Mike Madden.
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Media Deathwatch
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The CBS television network is discussing "a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN," reports Tim Arango. (The network denies the report.) The discussions reflect "a strategic shift in the face of changing market forces by the network that is widely credited as having invented television news. ...
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China Seeks PR Firm to Smooth over Protests
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Olympic Torch Protest in ParisIn the wake of the widespread protests in Tibet and growing protests along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay, the Chinese govern
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Bloggers Can Be Hard on Greenwashers
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The latest green marketing study from Nielsen Online "calls greenwashing a 'failed corporate strategy' and urges brands to aim for transparency and consistency instead.
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Medialink's 'Fake News' Financial Woes
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The giant of the fake news business, Medialink Worldwide, has fallen out of favor with investors. In the last year the company's share price has plummeted from $5.81 to its current level around the $1.70 mark. In its latest annual report, the company glumly states that sales in 2007 in the U.S.
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