Issue Management

Eli Lilly: Yet Again, One Small Step Ahead of Congress

by Diane Farsetta — September 25, 2008 - 3:34pm

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has announced that it will begin reporting its payments to doctors in late 2009, using an online database. But the disclosure is limited to payments of more than $500 made for giving talks or advice to the company; payments for other services or gifts will not be included.

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Wall Street Journal health blog, September 24, 2008

Climate Changers Go Lobbying

by Bob Burton — September 23, 2008 - 6:17am

The UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, a group hosted by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Industry, has written to British political leaders requesting a meeting to discuss the development of a "comprehensive package of policy measures to change every major sector of the economy" to combat

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The Guardian (UK), September 19, 2008

Drug Companies Need Reputation Rx

by Diane Farsetta — September 9, 2008 - 11:36am

According to a recent Gallup poll, the public has "a dimmer view of the pharmaceutical industry than they do of the advertising / public relations sector, if you can imagine such a thing," writes Mark Dolliver.

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AdWeek, September 8, 2008

Associated Press Responds to Bias Charges

by Diane Farsetta — September 2, 2008 - 1:28pm

MoveOn, Media Matters and liberal blogs have launched a campaign against Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier, "for what they consider light treatment of John McCain at the expense of o

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Politico.com, September 1, 2008

ICE Wins by Failing with "Scheduled Departure"

by Diane Farsetta — August 28, 2008 - 10:52am

"I think this proves the only method that works is enforcement," concluded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Jim Hayes. He was referring to "Scheduled Departure," a controversial ICE program that encouraged undocumented immigrants to deport themselves.

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Associated Press, August 22, 2008

Global Warming's Deadly Denial

by Bob Burton — August 4, 2008 - 6:24am

Reviewing the continued campaign by climate change skeptics, David McKnight, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia), notes that there several reasons why companies such as Exxon have had some success playing the global warming denial card. "First, the implications of the science are frightening.

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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 2, 2008

Edelman Likes It Hot

by Bob Burton — August 1, 2008 - 12:26am
  • Topics: Activism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Issue Management, Global Warming, International

    • Over the next week, campaigners from around the United Kingdom will converge on the site of a proposed expansion of the coal-fired Kingsnorth Power Station and participate in civil disobedience protests. The company behind the proposal, E.ON UK, a subsidiary of the German energy company E.ON, is so worried by the prospect of the planned civil disobedience campaign that it has hired the PR firm Edelman, to see if it can help ensure that the company's proposal retains government support.

    4,000 U.S. Deaths and a Handful of Images

    by Sheldon Rampton — July 27, 2008 - 8:14pm

    Zoriah Miller, a freelance photojournalist who published images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack in Iraq, has been forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country and may be barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. His case "has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war," write Michael Kamber and Tim Arango.

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    New York Times, July 26, 2008

    Taking out the Trash

    by Bob Burton — July 27, 2008 - 5:54pm

    On parliament's last day before its summer break, the British government publicly released thirty ministerial statements, including one listing the salaries of "special advisers," one detailing the siting criteria for new nuclear power stations and another detailing the guests entertained at

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    Guardian (UK), July 22, 2008

    The Secret of Marlboro's Success: Freebase Nicotine

    by Anne Landman — June 23, 2008 - 4:21pm

    Most American cigarette makers, including Philip Morris (PM), have used ammonia in their manufacturing processes for decades, to "puff up" tobacco to increase its volume, highlight certain flavors, help hold together reconstituted tobacco sheet and reduce the amount of

    Main Source: 
    American Journal of Public Health (sub req'd), July 2008
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