Crisis Management

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

Pentagon Working to Influence Future Movies about Iraq

by Anne Landman — July 7, 2008 - 3:41pm

The Pentagon is attempting to influence filmmakers and future movies depicting the U.S. conflict in Iraq.

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Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2008

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

"Bad Apple" Theory Rotting

by Anne Landman — June 17, 2008 - 12:59pm

The Bush administration has long held that overly-aggressive interrogation methods used on detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay were the work of a few "bad apples." Now, an investigation bei

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Washington Post, June 17, 2008

Damage Control All Over Again

by Sheldon Rampton — May 30, 2008 - 2:30pm

For Richard A. Clarke, the former Bush administration security advisor whose tell-all book was denounced as a betrayal four years ago, the current White House attacks on former press secretary Scott McClellan are reminiscent of what he went through. "It's like an echo chamber," he told Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

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U.S. News & World Report, May 30, 2008

Thanks to Chantix, Quitting Smoking May Be Hazardous, Too

by Diane Farsetta — May 29, 2008 - 9:51am

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer "is preparing an advertising and public-relations campaign to counter concerns about its antismoking drug Chantix, once trumpeted as a potential billion-dollar-a-year blockbuster." So far, Pfizer has "run ads in five major newspapers in which its medical director explains Chantix's risk-benefit balance." The drug company will soon "start hosting round

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Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), May 29, 2008

Duck and Cover

by Bob Burton — May 27, 2008 - 1:36am

The Alberta government has hired crisis management guru Peter Sandman to help it defuse concerns over the environmental impact of the oilsands mining industry.

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Calgary Herald, May 25, 2008

Thanks for the Mercury

by Judith Siers-Poisson — May 22, 2008 - 1:42pm

It isn't every day that a state's largest polluter is honored. It helps when the polluter -- and its buddies -- helped found and advise the group giving the award. The Maryland-based Wildlife Habitat Council gave biodiversity conservation awards to 21 companies, including the Lafarge cement plant in Ravena, New York. The award was for Lafarge's 150-acre Deer Mountain Nature Preserve. The honor was not publicized until the company came under fire for mercury contamination near a local high school.

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Times Union (Albany, NY), May 21, 2008
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