Crisis Management

Investigation Sought Into Campaign Against Drug Whistleblower

by Bob Burton — July 21, 2006 - 4:20am

Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley has written to the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services seeking an investigation into whether the Food and Drug Administration and Merck collaborated to try and discredit

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Newsday, July 19, 2006

Some Friendly Advice from Dell

by Sheldon Rampton — July 16, 2006 - 11:35am

Dell recently hired the GCI Group to help the computer company with a PR campaign titled "Rebuilding Corporate Reputation Through Grassroots Efforts" — a fancy way of saying they are trying to repair the company's reputation for poor customer service.

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Buzzmachine, July 11, 2006

BAT Dodges Document Shredding Case

by Bob Burton — July 7, 2006 - 2:00am

British American Tobacco (BAT) reached an out of court settlement in a case that threatened to explore the company's "document retention policy," under which sensitive documents were shredded.

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Sydney Morning Herald, July 6 2006

British Airways Grounds PR Manager

by Bob Burton — June 30, 2006 - 4:14am

An investigation by the U.K. government's Office and Fair Trading and the U.S. Department of Justice into allegations of price-fixing in the airline industry has resulted in British Airways (BA) suspending its head of communications, Iain Burns.

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The Independent (UK), June 28, 2006

Food Flack Nation Attacks Journalist Eric Schlosser

by John Stauber — May 11, 2006 - 5:49pm
  • Topics: Food Safety, Crisis Management, Front Groups, Public Relations

    • "Fast Food Nation" mega-selling author Eric Schlosser must be doing something right. He's under vicious attack from food industry lobbyists and front groups mimicking his book title in their website smearing him. Long time Fleishman-Hillard food flack Becky Johnson and her fellow spinmeisters risk publicizing Schlosser's writings in their over-the-top efforts to condemn him.

    The industrial food lobby is freaking-out over "Chew On This", his new book with Charles Wilson aimed at youngsters, and the fact that his "Fast Food Nation" is being made into a major Hollywood movie with the same title. Best Food Nation is the food industry's sound-alike website funded by the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Meat Institute, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, National Council of Chain Restaurants, and 14 other food lobbies. The website highlights anti-Schlosser rants by industry-funded front groups including Heartland Institute and the American Council on Science and Health.

    From Russia with Spin

    by Judith Siers-Poisson — April 5, 2006 - 12:06am
  • Topics: Crisis Management, Terrorism, Public Diplomacy, Democracy, International

    • All is not champagne and caviar in Moscow. Pro-Putin political forces are concerned that the West -- particularly the US -- is growing increasingly distant from President Vladmir Putin and the current Russian administration.

    White House Damage Control

    by Laura Miller — March 30, 2006 - 2:16pm

    "Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration," the National Journal's

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    National Journal, March 30, 2006

    Sudan Promotes Self to NY Times Readers

    by Laura Miller — March 21, 2006 - 4:11pm

    The Government of Sudan -- tired of international media focusing on the country's ongoing genocide -- paid for an upbeat eight-page advertising insert in Monday's New York Times. O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports that Summit Communications prepared the insert which "extols the investment opportunities in the energy-rich state" but "has no rebuttal to United Nations and U.S.

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    O'Dwyer's PR Daily, March 20, 2006

    Coke's PR Connects Canada and Colombia

    by Diane Farsetta — December 27, 2005 - 5:38pm

    After students at two Canadian universities, McMaster and the University of Guelph, voted down campus exclusivity deals with Coca-Cola, "the world's largest soft-drink company has launched a counter-offensive in hopes of heading off further boycotts." In December, Coke reps visited McMaster and the University of British Columbia.

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    Associated Press, December 27, 2005
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