Mormons Use PR Campaign to Boost Their Image
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The Utah-based Mormon church is running a tele
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Is the National Organization for Marriage a Front Group?
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Is the National Organization for Marriage a front group for anonymous, deep-pocketed donors from conservative churches who are pouring money into fighting efforts by gays to attain marriage equality?
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Clinton Global Initiative Hires APCO Worldwide
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Former President Bill Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2005 to implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems, like hunger, poverty and access to health care.
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Amazon Customer Puts "Toxic Sludge" on Top Ten Must-Read List
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Philip Morris Astroturfs Australia's Plain Cigarette Pack Law
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Earlier this year, Australia became the first country to announce plans to make tobacco companies use plain, uncolored cigarette packs with few or no logos that bear only graphic health warnings.
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Lauria Quit Cigarettes, But Now He's on the Bottle
Old tobacco industry PR flacks don't go away, they just defend different products for money. So it is with former Tobacco Institute spokesman Thomas Lauria, who is now defending bottled water.
Seems benign enough. After all, fighting for water -- albeit in an over-commercialized, overpriced and polluting form -- instead of cigarettes would seem to be an improvement for Lauria. But just as he battled efforts to educate people about the health hazards of secondhand smoke, Lauria is now battling efforts to educate people about the hoax that is bottled water.
Can PR Fix This End Run?
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Tiki Barber, a former running back for the New York Giants, has hired the 5W Public Relations agency in New York to try and repair his image after he left his wife, who was eight months pregnant with twins, for a former NBC intern. 5W Public Relations is the third PR agency Barber has hired to try and burnish his image.
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Sometimes PR Just Can't Help
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The PR debacles of BP, Toyota and Goldman Sachs show the limits of what public relations can do for companies in crisis.
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AMC's "Mad Men" Atones for Ubiquitous Smoking
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AMC's Emmy-award winning TV show "Mad Men" depicts advertising executives in the 1960s, including their ubiquitous smoking, which occurs in practically every scene in every show. Now "Mad Men" is holding a celebrity auction on E-Bay in which it will sell off a walk-on role in the show to benefit lung cancer research and treatment at the City of Hope National Medical Center.
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Flotilla Ship "Painted" to Cover Bullet Holes
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In the aftermath of the crimes perpetrated against those riding on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli government, it has been well-documented that the Israeli hasbara machine somehow transformed the victims into victimizers. A bit over two months later, the spin continues unabated.
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