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  • Reply to: One Step Forward (But Two Back) in the Fight Against Fake News   18 years 5 months ago
    The Senate Commerce Committee has the revised Act posted on their website, at: http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/s967asrptd.pdf
  • Reply to: It's Miller Time   18 years 5 months ago
    Jack Schafer at Slate magazine has written a piece titled "[http://www.slate.com/id/2128429|The Exorcism of the New York Times]" in which he calls on the Times to publish a full account of what went wrong with Miller's reporting on the Iraq WMD beat. The newspaper has recovered from early embarrassments such as the [[Jayson Blair]] scandal "because it published detailed accounts showing readers where and how it went wrong," he writes. However, "Miller continues to haunt the New York Times two and a half years after her Iraq work was widely discredited, because the paper has yet to document how she botched the story of the decade and catalog the role she played in the current White House imbroglio."
  • Reply to: Toxic Sludge, Soda and Beer Are All Good for You!   18 years 5 months ago
    More on this Perfect Storm in The Dallas News.
    PepsiCo already partnered with the "National Urban League, the National Council of La Raza and the fitness organization America On the Move Foundation to get its healthy lifestyles message out to African-American and Latino consumers".
    PepsiCo can claim 70% of their sales come from healthy food, they are the one who put the label. I'm not sure soda, even diet, and potato chips, even baked, are that healthy.
    The smart spot remains the company headquarters : Purchase, NY.
    ______________________________________________________________________________________ Stephane MOT - http://www.stephanemot.com ______________________________________________________________________________________
  • Reply to: Support Our Props   18 years 5 months ago
    To see this story in my weekly prwatch newsletter, was not a surprise. I am glad to read that it got some much needed attention from the media though. This "looking the other way" tactic, that journalists have become very good at was halted with this particular staged event. It is definitely not a new thing, "staging events." But, I agree with some of the above responses, it is not acceptable to use our troops in the way they are being used. I am a former "journalist in training" that was stationed at Ft. Meade and going through the program to be a PR person or a Sgt. Lombardo. I realized what was "up ahead" in my career and failed out of the program on purpose. I then asked for a chapter and got out with an Honorable Discharge. I am glad to be a civilian again. I made a promise to myself that I would continue doing PR, through my own pursuits. Mainly because I owe it to my fellow soldiers still serving this country, and protecting my freedom and rights. I am finishing my masters degree in PR and I have started my own PR company. Ethics are extremely important to me and reading stories like this only fuel my fire to strive for excellence in my PR efforts. I am happy to help out "Operation Truth," on any level I can. Thanks Sheldon for blogging on this. Ex-Spc. Fresh www.fresh-communications.com
  • Reply to: Don't Tell Us To Do What We're Already Doing!   18 years 5 months ago
    Since CSR is really PR, it's perfectly understandable that corporations wouldn't want governments in charge of it. For one thing, governments always try to do PR on the cheap. (Well, the Bushies are a notable exception, but then, they're really more corporation than government in any case.) Corporations seem to prefer that notorious cheapskates run social welfare programs, and leave them to spend freely on manipulating public opinions. Nathaniel Wander

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