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Bush Sweet On Sugar

Submitted by Laura Miller on

The World Health Oragnization's leading scientists are accusing the Bush administration of putting the sugar industry's interests ahead of the global fight against obesity. The Observer reports, "Professor Kaare Norum, leader of the World Health Organisation's fight to prevent millions developing diet-related diseases, has sparked an international war of words with a highly critical letter to US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson. In it he tells of his grave concern over American opposition to the WHO's blueprint to combat obesity.

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Main Source: 
Observer (UK), January 18, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Health
International
U.S. Government

It's Official: Big Business is Pro-Bush

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

Ken Mehlman, former Bush political advisor and current Bush-Cheney campaign chair, is working "to boost the political impact of business" in 2004, according to The Hill. Among these efforts is the formation of an "association CEOs for Bush" group. "The campaign finance laws require the group to maintain at least a semblance of nonpartisan independence, but there is no question that it favors Bush's re-election," reports Alexander Bolton.

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Main Source: 
The Hill, January 7, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
U.S. Government

Another Award for Bill O'Reilly

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Bill O'Reilly, who famously falsely claimed to be the winner of two Peabody Awards, has finally won something for real -- top spot on Pandagon.net's list of "the 20 most annoying conservatives of 2003." According to Pandagon webmasters Ezra Klein and Jesse Taylor, O'Reilly "had a hard time getting on this list.

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Main Source: 
http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm
Topics: 
Right Wing
Corporations
Media

Shh...Offshoring In Process

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"US corporations are picking up the pace in shifting well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost centres, but they are keeping quiet for fear of a backlash," reports David Zielenziger. "Morgan Stanley estimates the number of US jobs outsourced to India will double to about 150,000 in the next three years.

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Main Source: 
Reuters, December 24, 2003
Topics: 
Corporations
Labor
Secrecy

Torie's Latest Gig: PR and Lobbying for Comcast

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Comcast Corporation, the largest cable TV company in the U.S., announced that Victoria (Torie) Clarke will join the company as Senior Advisor for Communications and Government Affairs. She served most recently as Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Public Affairs. Clarke previously served as Press Secretary
for former President Bush's 1992 re-election campaign, as a close advisor to

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Main Source: 
Comcast News Release, December 15, 2003
Topics: 
Corporations
Public Relations
U.S. Government

Spin Doctors Examine "CSR"

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Corporate social responsibility [CSR], and the role that communications plays
within it, is a controversial subject. ... So when CSR agency Futerra Sustainability Communications teamed up with communications agency CTN, PRWeek and the IPR to run an online discussion on the issue on 12 November, more than 200 CSR practitioners and communication professionals signed in to express their opinions. ... The irony that one part of a

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Main Source: 
PR Week, December 5, 2003
Topics: 
Corporate Social Responsibility
Public Relations

Industry Hopes to Censor Ads on Hazards of Infant Formula

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Federal officials have softened a national advertising
campaign to promote breastfeeding after complaints from two
companies that make infant formula, according to several
doctors and nurses who are helping the government with the
effort. After the two companies [Mead Johnson and Abbott] and the top officials of the American Academy of Pediatrics complained to federal health
officials, the government decided to eliminate spots
discussing the risk of leukemia and diabetes in babies not

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Main Source: 
New York Times, December 4, 2003
Topics: 
Advertising
Corporations
Health

Hollinger's Neoconservative Scandal

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Hollinger International Inc., a newspaper publisher caught up in a widening financial scandal, is looking into an investment the company made to a venture capital fund with links to neoconservative defense adviser Richard Perle and Henry Kissinger, both directors of the company.

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Main Source: 
Editor and Publisher, December 3, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Journalism
Corporations

Pushing the Brain's "Buy Button"

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Commercial Alert and prominent psychology experts sent a letter today to Emory University President James Wagner, requesting that Emory stop conducting neuromarketing experiments on human subjects. Neuromarketing is a controversial new field of marketing that maps the brain's activation responses in order prod desires for particular products.

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Main Source: 
Commercial Alert, December 1, 2003
Topics: 
Corporations
Marketing

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