The 1st Quarter 2003 issue of PR Watch has now been added to our website. It features several articles by Andy Rowell and Bob Burton that show how drug and biotechnology PR suppresses important health information while persuading patients to consume drugs of questionable safety and efficacy. It also features "Weapons of Mass Deception," an article by PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton that examines some of the themes covered in our upcoming new book with the same name, which looks at the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq.

It was apparently just a matter of time. A parody website called the "Faux News Channel, P.N.N. (Pentagon News Network)" has received a letter from attorneys for the Fox News Network. The attorneys object, among other things, to the sale by Faux of "Bill O'Reilly Hitler Youth" t-shirts. They express concern that people may confuse the real Faux with the fake Fox ... or is that vice-versa?

"New York Times reporter Judith Miller played a highly unusual role in an Army unit assigned to search for dangerous Iraqi weapons, according to U.S.