Crisis Management

Meijer Admission

by Sheldon Rampton — February 7, 2008 - 3:19pm

The Meijer retail chain has issued a public apology, admitting that it "likely violated campaign finance and reporting laws" and pledging to "comply with any and all direction, penalties, fines or other actions required by the Department of State" in connection with its covert effort to manipulate elections in Acme Township, Michigan, where local officials opposed its pla

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Grand Rapids Press, February 5, 2008

Once Again, Drug Companies Caught Data Doping

by Diane Farsetta — January 23, 2008 - 12:58pm

The pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering-Plough, which co-market the cholesterol drug Vytorin, "have gone into damage-control mode, taking out newspaper ads." The PR campaign follows the companies' reluctant publication of a study showing that neither of the drugs present in Vytorin "reduced the buildup of fatty plaque in arteries." The study "was co

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Advertising Age, January 22, 2008

Hill & Knowlton's Maldives Role Still Generating Heat

by Bob Burton — January 10, 2008 - 3:49am

The role of the PR firm Hill & Knowlton (H&K) in polishing the image of the authoritarian government of the Maldives has become the centerpoint of a controversy between the former Foreign Minister, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, and the current Information Minister, Mohamed Nasheed.

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N.Velidhoo Community, December 30, 2007

San Francisco Zoo Hires PR Flack to Try and Save its Skin After Tiger Mauling

by Anne Landman — January 8, 2008 - 12:16pm

Look, but don't taunt.The situation was about as bad as it could get for a zoo. On Christmas Day, Tatiana the tiger escaped from her enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, mauled a 17 year old boy to death and severely injured two of his companions.

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San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2008

Giuliani's Drug Deal

by Sheldon Rampton — December 31, 2007 - 9:19am

As a paid corporate lobbyist, U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani helped Purdue Pharma defend its illegal activities to promote the drug Oxycontin, according to New York Times reporters Barry Meier and Eric Lipton. "As a celebrity, Mr.

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New York Times, December 28, 2007
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