Issue Management

Treating Injured Military Personnel With PR

by Bob Burton — March 29, 2007 - 4:11am

In early March, George W. Bush announced the creation of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors as a way of ending controversy over substandard treatment of injured U.S. personnel at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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The Peacock Report, March 24, 2007

Chiquita Pleads Guilty to Funding Colombian Terrorists

by Bob Burton — March 21, 2007 - 4:51am

The food company Chiquita Brands International, Inc. has pleaded guilty to funding a Colombian paramilitary group designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. According to U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors, the company's Colombian subsidiary, Banadex, paid approximately $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) between 1997 and 2004.

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Associated Press, March 19, 2007

Out with the Old Front Groups & In with the New

by Bob Burton — March 21, 2007 - 2:54am

Two former food industry websites -- Best Food Nation and the Grow America Project -- are being merged and re-birthed as a new front group, the Center for Food Integrity (CFI).

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Food NavigatorUSA.com, March 20, 2007

The Corporate Art of Creating a Crisis

by Bob Burton — March 20, 2007 - 5:37pm
  • Topics: Activism, Crisis Management, Issue Management, Children, Corporations, Democracy, Think Tanks

    • By all indications, Mark McInnes is a smart cookie.

    David Outsmarts Mining Goliath

    by Bob Burton — March 10, 2007 - 3:10am

    A satirical ad the New South Wales Mining Council wants banned from the web

    By invoking Australian copyright law, the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) twice succeeded in shutting down a website that sat

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    Sydney Morning Herald, March 5, 2007

    Pepsi's Dean

    by Bob Burton — March 6, 2007 - 7:53pm

    PepsiAmericas' range of products

    Three months after the Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr.

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    Pioneer Press (Minneapolis), March 5, 2007

    Court Rejects Legal Bid to Block Forest Protest

    by Bob Burton — February 21, 2007 - 1:57pm

    Forestry Tasmania, a Tasmanian government-owned forestry agency, lost a bid to get a court order preventing an environmental group from organizing a rally against logging operations.

    Main Source: 
    The Mercury (Australia), February 14, 2007

    Maldives Controversy Dogs Hill & Knowlton

    by Bob Burton — February 17, 2007 - 4:10am

    Source: Friends of Maldives.

    Supporters of the Maldives democracy movement protested outside the London office of the giant public relations firm Hill & Knowlton over its work f

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    Minivan News (Maldives), February 14, 2007
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