Chevron Plays the Victim
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The second-largest U.S. oil company sees itself as a victim, and it's going on a PR offensive to explain why.
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Associated Press Responds to Bias Charges
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MoveOn, Media Matters and liberal blogs have launched a campaign against Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier, "for what they consider light treatment of John McCain at the expe
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ICE Wins by Failing with "Scheduled Departure"
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"I think this proves the only method that works is enforcement," concluded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Jim Hayes. He was referring to "Scheduled Departure," a controversial ICE program that encouraged undocumented immigrants to deport themselves.
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In Iraq, the U.S. Military Needs to Tell Its Story Better
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Have a Coke and a Greenwash
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Coca-Cola wants you to think of it as green. That's why its public relations firm, Manning, Selvage & Lee, promoted the premiere of the soft drink company's film "Environmental Champions" at the Beijing Olympics complex.
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Anti-Union Groups Run Orwellian Ads
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The Center for Union Facts, one of lobbyist Rick Berman's front groups, is railing against the
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Yet Another Kind of Fake News
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As more newspapers and other media outlets cut staff, public relations and advertising make gains. The Minnesota-based firm ARAnet provides "free print and Web content. ... More than 65 of the nation's top 100 newspapers, including the Star Tribune, use" ARAnet content, which "carries client messages." ARAnet president Scott Severson says his firm provides "high-quality consumer content" that "just happen[s] to be underwritten by our clients." ARAnet clients pay $4,500 for content creation, tracking and reporting; media outlets use it for free.
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Former IndyMac Employees Go Swift Boating
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Former employees of the failed California IndyMac Bank have hired the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's former public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts (CRC), in an attempt to hold Senator Charles Schumer responsible for the bank's collapse.
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Canada's Oilsands Tarred with the "Greenwash" Brush
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The UK Advertising Standards Authority ruled that a Shell ad that repeatedly referred to extraction from Canada's oilsands as "sustainable" was "misleading." The advertising regulator noted the "considerable social and environmental impacts" of oilsands development, adding that Shell has not explained how it will manage "carbon emissions from its oilsands projects in order to limit
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Medialink's Meltdown
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Medialink Worldwide -- the largest producer of fake news products such as video news releases (VNRs) -- is in financial meltdown.
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