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Lobbying Wine in a PR Bottle?

by Diane Farsetta — March 26, 2008 - 11:48am

According to the Tennessee Ethics Commission's staff, a public relations firm that set up a front group that's encouraging people to contact legislators needs to register as a lobbyist. At issue is a proposal to allow Tennesseans to order wine over the Internet. The Tennessee Wine and Spirits Wholesalers, which opposes the bill, hired the prominent Nashville firm Seigenthaler Public Relations.

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Knoxville News Sentinel (Tennessee), March 25, 2008

Congress Discovers Independent Studies Ignored in Favor of Industry Findings

by Judith Siers-Poisson — March 26, 2008 - 11:05am

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined that a particular chemical in plastic was not harmful, they used scientific studies to prove it.

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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 21, 2008

Telling It Like It Is

by Bob Burton — March 25, 2008 - 12:27am

The director of external relations for Procter & Gamble, Mark Chakravarty, recently told a UK healthcare PR conference that the drug industry is less than popular with the public. "There is a high suspicion of the pharma industry. Greed, dishonesty and fraud are some of its associations. The clinical trial press this week and an increased number of drug scandals add to this image," he said.

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PR Week (UK), March 13, 2008

More Spin for the Span

by Diane Farsetta — March 19, 2008 - 4:25pm

After the tragic collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis last August, the state wants to "restore the image of the beleaguered Minnesota Department of Transportation." So Minnesota is paying the public relations firm Himle Horner at least $550,000.

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Star Tribune (Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota), March 16, 2008

Anti-Abortionists Hijack "Horton"

by Anne Landman — March 14, 2008 - 11:21am

When some people in the audience at the premiere of the new Dr. Suess movie "Horton Hears a Who" started yelling "A person's a person no matter how small," others thought they were just over-enthusiastic Dr. Suess fans. Instead, it turned out that a pack of anti-abortion activists had hijacked the elephant star's famous line to promote their view that abortion should be banned.

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Slate.com, March 14, 2008

U.S. Air Force Wants More Air Time

by Diane Farsetta — February 26, 2008 - 12:04pm

The U.S. Air Force "wants to more than double its advertising budget ... to $112.5 million," reports the Air Force Times.

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Air Force Times, February 18, 2008

Great Lakes Study Suppressed

by Sheldon Rampton — February 22, 2008 - 9:57pm

"For more than seven months, the nation's top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially 'alarming information' as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates," reports Sheila Kaplan.

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Center for Public Integrity, February 7, 2008

Fake vs. Fakes

by Sheldon Rampton — February 21, 2008 - 7:48am

In a Youtube video, "Heidi Cee" lamented the loss of her Coach handbag, compared product counterfeiting to ter

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Ben Kessler's blog, February 19, 2008

A Comical Attempt to Win Young Hearts and Minds

by Diane Farsetta — February 20, 2008 - 5:30pm

Want to earn up to $2.4 million to produce and distribute across Iraq 12 issues of a comic book designed to "highlight the professionalism of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) and to enhance the public perception of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) as a capable, well-trained, and professional fighting force"? Well, you'll have to compete with the Lincoln Group, the PR firm that previously placed U.S.

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Wired blog "Danger Room," February 19, 2008
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