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Its complete nonsense to think that there is any such thing as "corporate social responsibility." There may be the occasional co. that is honest about this, but as long as the capitalism as constitued remains defined by the "bottom line," it will all just be hyperbole of the worst kind, benefiting those who have most to gain, in most cases, as usual. "If we accept what they are giving us, we deserve what we get."

Wording is everything nowadays ain't it?

In todays world so many things are run by fear and this sounds to me like another advertisment based in fear. Sort of like:"If your afraid of us you should be afraid of everything". They aren't really educating anyone at all. Most of us learned this type of stuff in gradeschool. just my thoughts.

I don't frequent blogs so much as politically left/progressive news-type websites like democrats.com, bradblog.com, and BuzzFlash.com, and these sites feature this scandal VERY prominently. I have written to my congressional representatives about it and to news website columnists like the New York Times and made a very big deal about it myself. I suspect the scandal may be the just the tip of an enormous viceberg. How many other journalists are secretly on the public payroll -- Robert Novak? The Swift Boat Liars on Kerry? This is perhaps but an expansion and a continuation of the Operation Mockingbird scandal documented on this website.

If you read through Professor Rosen's comments, you'd see that there are many more than just "a few mentions here and there."

s/b Peter Finn not Peter Finch (ref. the article itself)

The problem is with these damn reporters hanging around the military personnel. Look at what happened to poor Mr. Rumsfeld! Whose brilliant idea was it to put reporters in with the troops? -- esp

I was wondering if someone could create a fictional private Social Security investment account dating back 20 years from today and determine if an average person would have prospered or would have lost everyting. The account would go a long way in proving or disproving if the presidents plan to privatize social security would work. I think the account would need to be invested in index funds and all fees applied as applicable. I don't have the knowledge or resources to accomplish this, so I thought some of your readers might. What do you think?

A reliable source has suggested to me that Rendon might be coming to speak at the Air War College. This would be in line with his past speaking egagements. On February 29, 1996, Rendon spoke before an audience of cadets at the US Air Force Academy. Sheldon Rampton and I reported this in our book "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq." Rendon bragged about his firm's work, saying: "I am not a national security strategist or a military tactician. I am a politician, and a person who uses communications to meet public policy or corporate policy objectives. In fact, I am an information warrior and a perception manager." Rendon reminded the Air Force cadets that when victorious troops rolled into Kuwait City at the end of the first war in the Persian Gulf, they were greeted by hundreds of Kuwaitis waving small American flags. The scene, flashed around the world on television screens, sent the message that US Marines were being welcomed in Kuwait as liberating heroes. "Did you ever stop to wonder," Rendon asked, "how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American, and for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries? Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs then."

I have a sneaking suspicion that most, if not all, of the pharmaceutical companies are headed by CEO's who are staunchly Republican. Has anyone researched this? What makes me suspicious is their way-too-cozy relationship with the FDA, their end-run marketing campaigns past the doctors straight to consumers, their ability to create false levels of alarm with the public by labeling common maladies as "diseases" so they can then market their "solutions", their willingness to push products that they know aren't safe at the time of final FDA approval, and their universal unwillingness to pull products off the market once safety questions are raised (in other words, before enough profits have been earned). Hmmm... Turner N. Gunter III, Pres./CEO Opportunity Knocks, Inc. info@opportunityknocksinc.com

"Do we really want to open the Pandora's Box of the FCC determining whether a story is "distorted?" The FCC doesn't need to. Fox itself admitted as much when they had the reporters' whistleblower rewards overturned: "That verdict was overturned in 2003 when an appellate court accepted Fox's defense that since it is not technically against any law, rule or regulation for a broadcaster to distort the news, the journalists were never entitled to employee protections as whistleblowers in the first place."

"Remember Food Lion and ABC?" Funny, that's exactly what Monsanto wrote to Fox News.