Kucinich Calls for Docs on Iraq War 'Sell Job'
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U.S. State Dept To Splurge on Persian Media
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"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress yesterday to provide $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the Iranian government." If granted, the request would increase to $85 million the 2006 budget "to promote political change inside Iran," up from
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The UK and US: Similar Fake News, Iraq Occupations
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In 2002, the British government "launched a little-known television propaganda service that seems to mimic the U.S. government's deceptive approach to fake news," writes David Miller.
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At Lincoln Group, the Propaganda Never Ends
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The Lincoln Group, which planted Pentagon-written stories in Iraqi newspapers, won U.S.
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"True Spin": An Oxymoron or a Lofty Goal?
"Officials from giant corporations meet all the time to share their latest and greatest PR strategies," read the conference website. "Now it's our turn."
On February 2 and 3, some 180 people attended the True Spin Conference in Denver, Colorado, which was billed as "a PR conference for progressives." The event was organized by CauseCommunications, a small Denver PR firm whose clients have included Ben Cohen's Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, Winona LaDuke's Honor the Earth, and The Progressive magazine.
PR Czar Hughes Loses the Reporters
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"In September, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes ... took 16 reporters on her first trip to the Mideast," Al Kamen writes. "We all know how well that trip turned out.
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U.S. Government Media Contracts Revealed
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The nonpartisan investigative arm of the U.S.
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The "Center for Union Facts" Is Rick Berman's Newest Fiction
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On February 13, full-page advertisements in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, along with a media stunt involving a dinosaur, announced a new union-bashing front group called Center for Union Facts.
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Shell's Greenwash Stunt: Driving Around (Some of) the World
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Iraq PR: Same as it Ever Was
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The PR firm Burson-Marsteller's lobbying unit, BKSH & Associates, "has added the Republic of Iraq to its client roster," reports O'Dwyer's.
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