U.S. Public Diplomacy Goes South
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The U.S.
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K Street to Get a TM?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
While "most other Republicans" are avoiding the phrase K Street Project, following lobbyist Jack Abramoff's January agreement to plead guilty to corruption charges, Grover Norquist is seeking to trademark it.
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Public Service or War Propaganda?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
In early April, "a public-service advertising campaign began ...
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Join the Fight to Stop Fake News!
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Do you like being propagandized? If not, join the fight to stop fake news! As the Center for Media and Democracy reported last week, TV stations' use of corporate-funded video news releases is widespread and undisclosed. Our colleagues at Free Press have made it easy for you to contact the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on this important issue.
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Playing Public Diplomacy Games
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The U.S. State Department and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication are co-sponsoring a "Reinventing Public Diplomacy Through Games Competition, which seeks to improve America's reputation abroad," reports Wired magazine.
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Frequent Flying Regulators
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy that precludes employees from accepting trips paid for by companies the agency regulates is easily side-stepped. Alexander Cohen reports that non-profit groups that "draw their members, their boards and even some of their funding from medical and pharmaceutical-related companies" paid for roughly one-third of the 3,600 sponsored trips received by hundreds of FDA employees since 1999.
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White House Damage Control
Submitted by Laura Miller on
"Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration," the National Journal
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You Say 'Influence,' I Say 'Propaganda'
Submitted by Laura Miller on
In an interview with the Washington Post, the Lincoln Group's Paige Craig and Andrew Garfield vaguely discussed the firm's "influence" - not propaganda - work for the U.S. government, with whom they have 12 contracts totaling more than $130 million.
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U.S. Military Has No Problem with Propaganda
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The New York Times reports that the U.S. military's review of a PR firm's covert propaganda program in Iraq, led by Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk, has been completed but not made public.
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Mad Cows and Mad Policies
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
CMD and Organic Consumers Association at a June 2005 USDA meeting
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