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U.S. Military Ponders Hiring or Hacking Bloggers

by Diane Farsetta — April 1, 2008 - 10:53am

"Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," suggests a 2006 study written for the U.S. military's Special Operations Command.

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Wired.com blog "Danger room," March 31, 2008

MultiVu Goes MultiCultural

by Diane Farsetta — March 20, 2008 - 1:04pm

The PR firm MultiVu has a new "social media news release targeting the U.S. Hispanic audience," reports PR Week. Its "Interactivo Multimedia News Release" (IMNR) distributes fake news "broadcast content, photos, and text to Hispanic social networks and news sites.

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PR Week, March 19, 2008

U.S. News Media in Quite a State

by Diane Farsetta — March 19, 2008 - 4:50pm

"The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago," opens the latest "State of the News Media" report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Among the major findings is that the Internet is not yet the democratizing media force many hoped for.

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Project for Excellence in Journalism, March 16, 2008

How to Swift Boat Barack Obama?

by Sheldon Rampton — March 19, 2008 - 9:08am

Republican strategists are salivating over the "inflammatory sermons by Obama's pastor" Jeremiah Wright. They believe that Wright's sermons "offer the party a pathway to victory if Obama emerges as the Democratic nominee.

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Politico.com, March 19, 2008

Great Wall of Silence About Tibetan Protests

by Diane Farsetta — March 18, 2008 - 3:34pm

"China has begun to fight back against criticism of its handling of the Tibetan protests," during which protesters have been killed, with a "sustained publicity offensive as well as blocking foreign broadcasters and websites and denying journalists access to areas of unrest," reports The Guardian.

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The Guardian (UK), March 18, 2008

Adios, Online Privacy

by Sheldon Rampton — March 15, 2008 - 11:49pm

The National Security Agency, once known for its skill in eavesdropping on the world's telephone calls, is adapting to the times by "focusing on widespread monitoring of e-mail messages and text messages, recording of Web browsing, and other forms of electronic data-mining, all done without court supervision," reports Declan McCullagh.

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The Iconoclast, March 11, 2008

Mainstream Media, MoveOn, Ignored Iraq Veterans' 'Winter Soldier' Investigation

by John Stauber — March 13, 2008 - 4:30pm

Kelly Dougherty, the former sergeant who is the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), announced on March 13th the start of the group's three-day Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan investigation into the United States' conduct of its wars, featuring testimony of scores of anti-war veterans.

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Irag Veterans Against the War, March 13, 2008

Group Blogging for the Man (and Fleishman-Hillard)

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2008 - 3:07pm

Under the banner "a marketplace of ideas," major industry groups are blogging together, to "build influence and drive policy." The BizCentral blog includes the American Petroleum Institute, Business Roundtable,

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Politico.com, March 3, 2008

British PR Industry Doing Jolly Well

by Diane Farsetta — March 5, 2008 - 2:38pm

"I can't recall a time when PR has been as strong," Sir Martin Sorrell, the head of the UK-based marketing and public relations conglomerate WPP, told the Guardian.

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The Guardian (UK), March 3, 2008
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