Check out the KGO TV piece above about [[Rick Berman]], the lobbyist who runs [[ActivistCash]] and whom PR exec Kevin Foley finds so credible. KGO TV is the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, CA. This is a great example of a TV station actually engaged in journalism, exposing [[ActivistCash]] and [[Rick Berman]] as industry shills and fronts. KGO could have saved itself thousands and thousands of dollars and avoided offending powerful interests such as the corporations that fund [[ActivistCash]] and [[Berman and Co.]] by NOT doing this story, and instead running one of the corporate-funded fake news stories that Kevin Foley provides stations for free. Hats off to KGO for real journalism in this case.
Bush has been a lousy President, the worst EVER in US history. Bush had the intel in his hand in August 2001 to prevent 9-11, but didn't. He doesn't like to read difficult things. 3,000 dead.
Bush lied to the world about his reasons for invading Iraq; 2,400+ (and rising) US fighting men and women dead. He has forgotten who Osama Bin Laden is and what he did.
Bush has trampled individual rights with his program of illegal spying on US citizens. He cares not a bit for anyone who makes less money than he and his cronies make. His friends in Big Oil are kissing his hand these days. "Mission accomplished."
Bush should be tried as a war criminal, for that is what his actions have made him.
I'm curious as to why the VNR referenced as having been aired by KTVI in St. Louis is a problem. It was a lifestyles package on Halloween candy and safe Halloween practices.
Do we think enterprising TV reporters would have uncovered a huge Halloween conspiracy where Snickers and 1-800-FLOWERS were teaming up to brainwash all the little tykes? Divert all resources, boys -- we're taking these Satanic bastards down!
I understand the issues with the arthritis cure and such ... but pick your battles, people.
Because it's posted on activistcash doesn't mean it's a lie. But since I saw the following there as well, perhaps you can tell me if it's true (see, I give you the benefit of the doubt. Why won't you return me the courtesy?). If it is true, John, then it strikes me as a little hypocritical to condemn PR tactics employed by others to promote and sell things like medicine, soda, burgers or....books:
Rampton and Stauber’s latest book (Trust Us, We’re Experts! ) was delivered to the media with a slick press kit, citing favorable reviews from media experts. The packet also included a prewritten list of questions for reporters to ask when interviewing the authors. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blew the whistle, though, noting that “a somewhat sheepish Stauber” offered the following feeble excuse: “What you see is a true PR campaign around our book. This is how book publishing is done. I think it’s bad. I hate it.”
Kevin, we will be watching your site closely, please provide all necessary information for accessing it. Regarding my prescient book with Sheldon Rampton, Mad Cow USA, you seem a bit confused, probably because you are getting your information from lobbyist Rick Berman's www.activistcash.com website. In Mad Cow USA Sheldon and I correctly predicted that indeed mad cow disease would occur, as it has, in the US because all the safeguards necessary to prevent it were not, and still have no,t been taken. The USDA now admits we have probably been spreading mad cow disease here for a decade through the feeding of cows to cows. Yet today it is legal and widespread to wean calves on cattle blood here in the US. Despite confirming mad cow cases in Washington, Texas and Alabama, the US government is cutting back on mad cow testing. The US needs to do what the EU countries and Japan have done, ban all feeding of slaughterhouse waste to livestock, and test milllions of animals. Your nearest library can provide a copy of our book for free, and if you just click on the book title in the right column of our home page you can read all about it, including the praise it received from various scientific and medical reviews. But, of course, lobbyists for the beef industry like Rick Berman have their own spin, and you Kevin have succumbed to it, probably because you have such a demonstrated problem separating "news" from corporate PR.
https://www.prwatch.org/node/4777
Check out the KGO TV piece above about [[Rick Berman]], the lobbyist who runs [[ActivistCash]] and whom PR exec Kevin Foley finds so credible. KGO TV is the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, CA. This is a great example of a TV station actually engaged in journalism, exposing [[ActivistCash]] and [[Rick Berman]] as industry shills and fronts. KGO could have saved itself thousands and thousands of dollars and avoided offending powerful interests such as the corporations that fund [[ActivistCash]] and [[Berman and Co.]] by NOT doing this story, and instead running one of the corporate-funded fake news stories that Kevin Foley provides stations for free. Hats off to KGO for real journalism in this case.
Bush has been a lousy President, the worst EVER in US history. Bush had the intel in his hand in August 2001 to prevent 9-11, but didn't. He doesn't like to read difficult things. 3,000 dead.
Bush lied to the world about his reasons for invading Iraq; 2,400+ (and rising) US fighting men and women dead. He has forgotten who Osama Bin Laden is and what he did.
Bush has trampled individual rights with his program of illegal spying on US citizens. He cares not a bit for anyone who makes less money than he and his cronies make. His friends in Big Oil are kissing his hand these days. "Mission accomplished."
Bush should be tried as a war criminal, for that is what his actions have made him.
The No-Spin Padre
I'm curious as to why the VNR referenced as having been aired by KTVI in St. Louis is a problem. It was a lifestyles package on Halloween candy and safe Halloween practices.
Do we think enterprising TV reporters would have uncovered a huge Halloween conspiracy where Snickers and 1-800-FLOWERS were teaming up to brainwash all the little tykes? Divert all resources, boys -- we're taking these Satanic bastards down!
I understand the issues with the arthritis cure and such ... but pick your battles, people.
Because it's posted on activistcash doesn't mean it's a lie. But since I saw the following there as well, perhaps you can tell me if it's true (see, I give you the benefit of the doubt. Why won't you return me the courtesy?). If it is true, John, then it strikes me as a little hypocritical to condemn PR tactics employed by others to promote and sell things like medicine, soda, burgers or....books:
Rampton and Stauber’s latest book (Trust Us, We’re Experts! ) was delivered to the media with a slick press kit, citing favorable reviews from media experts. The packet also included a prewritten list of questions for reporters to ask when interviewing the authors. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blew the whistle, though, noting that “a somewhat sheepish Stauber” offered the following feeble excuse: “What you see is a true PR campaign around our book. This is how book publishing is done. I think it’s bad. I hate it.”
Kevin, we will be watching your site closely, please provide all necessary information for accessing it. Regarding my prescient book with Sheldon Rampton, Mad Cow USA, you seem a bit confused, probably because you are getting your information from lobbyist Rick Berman's www.activistcash.com website. In Mad Cow USA Sheldon and I correctly predicted that indeed mad cow disease would occur, as it has, in the US because all the safeguards necessary to prevent it were not, and still have no,t been taken. The USDA now admits we have probably been spreading mad cow disease here for a decade through the feeding of cows to cows. Yet today it is legal and widespread to wean calves on cattle blood here in the US. Despite confirming mad cow cases in Washington, Texas and Alabama, the US government is cutting back on mad cow testing. The US needs to do what the EU countries and Japan have done, ban all feeding of slaughterhouse waste to livestock, and test milllions of animals. Your nearest library can provide a copy of our book for free, and if you just click on the book title in the right column of our home page you can read all about it, including the praise it received from various scientific and medical reviews. But, of course, lobbyists for the beef industry like Rick Berman have their own spin, and you Kevin have succumbed to it, probably because you have such a demonstrated problem separating "news" from corporate PR.
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