Politics

Perks for Peaceful Protesters

by Diane Farsetta — August 17, 2004 - 11:00pm

"In a PR appeasement attempt, NYC & Company, the city's official tourism-marketing organization, has offered incentives to Republican National Convention protestors who will protest peacefully," writes PR Week.

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PR Week (reg. req'd), August 18, 2004

Pre-Emptive "Traitor" Baiters

by Diane Farsetta — August 15, 2004 - 11:00pm

"Federal agents and city police are keeping tabs on people they say might try to cause trouble at the Republican National Convention, questioning activists, making unannounced visits and monitoring Web sites and meetings. ... The intelligence unit of the New York Police Department ...

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Associated Press, August 16, 2004

Spinning Spies for Fun and Electoral Profit

by Diane Farsetta — August 15, 2004 - 11:00pm

PR Week's Douglas Quenqua applauds "how effortlessly George Bush changed the conversation last week. Political debate ...

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PR Week (reg. req'd), August 16, 2004

The Presidential Race Card

by Diane Farsetta — August 10, 2004 - 11:00pm

"A Washington nonprofit group with ties to the Republican Party is airing radio ads ... asking if U.S. Senator John Kerry takes 'the black community for granted?'" The group, People of Color United, was founded last week by DC Parents For School Choice, which supports school vouchers.

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Philadelphia Daily News, August 11, 2004

RNC: A Marketplace of GOP Ideas

by Diane Farsetta — August 9, 2004 - 11:00pm

The Republican National Convention's entertainment director, former Gospel Music Association president Frank Breeden, calls his part of the program "Preachers and Patriots." He explained, "Entertainment plays more of a prominent role in marketing messages today than ever before," and convention organizers want to use music and culture to sell their political philosophy "just like Cadillac uses Led

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New York Times, August 10, 2004

Total Ad Saturation

by Diane Farsetta — August 8, 2004 - 11:00pm

The Democratic 527 group America Coming Together "is deploying thousands of supporters with PalmOne hand-helds to battleground states to play electronic ads individually for voters." The 15 state, $125 million get-out-the-vote effort's "canvassers were already using 2,000 Palms to track voters. ... [An] advertising consultant ...

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Advertising Age, August 9, 2004

Politics vs Science, Round 432

by Diane Farsetta — August 6, 2004 - 11:00pm

Gary Frazer, the Interior Department's "senior career official in the Endangered Species Office, which has produced several scientific findings angering his political superiors in the Fish and Wildlife Service, was reassigned last week to a newly created post as his division's liaison to the United States Geological Survey." Frazer's perhaps least admiring superior, Julie MacDonald,

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New York Times, August 7, 2004

When Vets Attack

by Diane Farsetta — August 4, 2004 - 11:00pm

"A group of Vietnam veterans has bought television time in three swing states for an advertisement that attacks Senator John Kerry, accusing him of lying about his war record, including the circumstances surrounding his medals, and betraying his comrades by later opposing the war." The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is a

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New York Times, August 5, 2004

Playing Good Flack, Bad Flack

by Diane Farsetta — August 3, 2004 - 11:00pm

"On the eve of the Democratic National Convention ... well-dressed politicians, corporate executives and their friends watched [fireworks] from a private party at a waterfront restaurant. ... Rick Rendon [was] the man in charge of the party," writes Pratap Chatterjee.

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CorpWatch, August 4, 2004

Al Qaeda at the DNC

by Sheldon Rampton — July 29, 2004 - 11:00pm

Journalism professor Jay Rosen, who attended the Democratic national convention, says the "great overlooked story in all the reporting" was the heightened security situation. "It was in your face, nonstop, in thousands of ways inside what was called, in military terms, The Perimeter," Rosen writes. "It came lunging at you as you approached the site and enveloped all when you were on site. You could have your credentials checked twenty times on a single trip from the ground floor to your seats. ...

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PressThink, July 30, 2004
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