PR colossus Fleishman-Hillard adds former President Clinton's Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to the firm's international advisory board. Kantor is a partner at Mayer, Brown and Platt law firm, where he advises clients on international corporate and financial transactions. He also serves as a senior advisor to Morgan Stanley and is a board member of Pharmacia, Monsanto, and Korea First Bank.

The Wall Street Journal recently gave a plug to ActivistCash.com, a new website that claims to expose where "activists get their money." ActivistCash.com attacks environmental, health and animal rights activists as "nannies," "anti-choice zealots" and "hypocrites" who pretend to represent grassroots citizens while taking money from foundations.

The National Council of Teachers of English has announced that "Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber won the 2001 George Orwell Award for their book Trust Us, We're Experts! which details language abuse by the food, chemical, tobacco and oil industries. ... The NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak has been giving its Orwell Award annually since 1975.