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Michels Warren, a PR firm in Adelaide, Australia, is collecting up to $107,000 from the Federal Government to sell the merits of a planned radioactive waste dump in South Australia.
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"Nike said today that although it has settled the suit brought against it by California consumer activist Mark Kasky, it still intends to curtail its corporate PR efforts, including the continued suspension of its social-responsibility reporting initiative," PR Week reports. "Despite the settlement, which was announced this morning, Nike said it does not plan to ramp up the PR activities that had been curtailed because of the pending lawsuit. ...
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"US popularity has plummeted in the Arab and Muslim world despite a nearly two-year-old State Department campaign to boost the US image, according to a Congress report," the Australian Financial Review reports.
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A Canadian meat packing plant has retained the Primary Counsel Group, a PR firm, to help answer allegations that it has been processing and selling "deadstock" - dead and condemned animals deemed unfit for human consumption.
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The British government is setting up a new "Department of Truth" in an effort to end damaging publicity about the role of politically appointed "spin-doctors." The rumored brain behind this strategy, however, is Peter Mandelson, the former Labour Party communications director who is credited with being the first of the new wave of spin-doctors when he worked for the party in the 1980s. "He is the one advising Tony Blair," said a government insider. "The King of Spin is in charge of the death of spin."
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Alastair Campbell, the top spin doctor for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has announced his resignation amid continuing controversy over his role in building the case for war with Iraq. Nicknamed England's "real deputy prime minister," Campbell said his family had paid a heavy price for the "real and intense" pressures of his job.
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"Pacific Lumber, the Northern California redwood logging giant whose clear-cuts have made it among the most vilified companies in the West by environmental groups over the past 15 years, is getting a makeover," the San Jose Mercury News writes.
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The vacationing George W. Bush recently said from his Crawford, Texas ranch, "We've made a lot of progress" in Iraq. The pronouncement was timed with the White House release of a 24-page report called "Results in Iraq: 100 Days Toward Security and Freedom". Detailing "highlights of the successes" in Iraq, the report -- prepared by the White House Office of Global Communications and the staff of L. Paul Bremer, the U.S.
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The State Department's glossy Arabic-language magazine aimed at 18- to 35-year-olds is getting mixed reviews with its target audience. Hi Magazine which focuses on cultural and societal issues, is funded by more than $4 million of State Department money. So far 50,000 copies have been distributed from Morocco to Kuwait. U.S. officials hope to increase the circulation to 250,000.
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"Wal-Mart, concerned about its public image, is using a consultant to analyze that image and has commissioned radio and television ads to try to reverse criticism from local officials, consumers and others," Constance Hays reports.
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