Journalism

The White House Exploited Lynch and Tillman to Market Their Wars

by Bob Burton — July 16, 2008 - 5:32am

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has released a report investigating the White House's media management efforts over the death from friendly fire of Army Ranger Pat Tillman and the rescue from an Iraqi hospital of Private Jessica Lynch.

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United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, July 14, 2008 (Pdf)

Nuking the Media

by Bob Burton — July 15, 2008 - 1:27am

Two years ago, an editorial in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) referred to the dream run that Patrick Moore and Christine Todd Whitman were getting in the media representing the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition.

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Jay Hancock's blog, Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2008

Spinning the Spin on Barack Obama

by Anne Landman — July 14, 2008 - 1:26pm

The cover of the upcoming issue of the New Yorker magazine bears a satirical cartoon that incorporates practically every jab the right wing has taken at Barack Obama and his wife Michelle: the couple is pictured standing in

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The Boston Globe (Boston.com), July 14, 2008

Is Bush Guilty of Murder? Don't Ask That on Our Show

by John Stauber — July 8, 2008 - 2:42pm

"As a Los Angeles county prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi batted a thousand in murder cases: 21 trials, 21 convictions, including the Charles Manson case in 1971. As an author, Mr. Bugliosi has written three No. 1 best sellers and won three Edgar Allan Poe awards, the top honor for crime writers. More than 30 years ago he co-wrote the best seller Helter Skelter, about the Manson case. ... [H]is latest, a polemic with the provocative title The Prosecution of George W.

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New York Times, July 7, 2008

Analyze This: Cable News Gets Loose with Its Labels

by Daniel Haack — June 30, 2008 - 1:13pm

Daniel Libit of The Politico reports that "among the things that the proliferation of TV cable news has wrought is slackened standards for what constitutes a political strategist," a term which has lost its meaning now that it is "used as a catchall tag for a whole host of people with varied -- and often peripheral -- backgrounds in electoral politics." Jane Fleming Kleeb, a so-called "Democratic strategist" --

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The Politico, June 24, 2008

YouTube vs. CNN on the Clean Coal Debate

by Judith Siers-Poisson — June 25, 2008 - 8:51am

A new YouTube video raises the question of whether CNN's coverage of the clean coal<

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YouTube

Jeff Gannon, National Press Club member

by Diane Farsetta — June 19, 2008 - 3:16pm

"If you ever wondered what happened to Jeff Gannon, the former conservative reporter whose questionable White House credentialing and ties to several sex Web sites forced him out of a job," he's an active member of the National Press Club.

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Editor and Publisher, June 19, 2008

VNRs Down Under

by Sheldon Rampton — June 13, 2008 - 1:29pm

Companies, government bodies and not-for-profit organizations have been using video news releases (VNRs) in Australia since 1995, reports Sally Jackson.

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The Australian, June 5, 2008

McClellan and the Ethics of Spin

by Sheldon Rampton — June 5, 2008 - 9:29am
  • Topics: Iraq, Journalism, Ethics, Propaganda, Public Relations, Rhetoric, U.S. Government

    • John Stodder has written the most interesting commentary I've seen from within the public relations industry about former Bush administration press secretary Scott McClellan's new book. It's interesting in part because Stodder is an interesting figure. For those who remember this sort of thing, he was one of two executives at the Fleishman-Hillard PR firm (the other was Douglas Dowie) who were convicted in May 2006 of multiple counts of conspiracy and fraud in a scheme to overbill the city of Los Angeles for public relations consulting services.

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