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CMD's Wendell Potter Exposes Health Insurance PR

Wendell Potter came to the Center for Media and Democracy in May as an admirer of our work exposing corporate front groups, lobbyists and PR manipulators. He should know, he was one of the best PR executives in the health insurance business, CIGNA's Vice President of Corporate Communications until he had a major change of heart.

Today Wendell is CMD's Senior Fellow on Health Care, testifying before the US Senate Commerce Committee. His passion is health care reform and his expertise is exposing how the powerful industry he once helped run is manipulating and managing the health care reform debate raging among policy makers, the public and in the media.

"Big Booze"? Alcohol Industry Fears "Big Tobacco"-Like Treatment

Submitted by Anne Landman on

Liquor industry wants to avoid getting negative attention like tobacco companies have received.Since international tobacco companies have also owned alcoholic beverage companies, tobacco documents yield information about the inner workings of the liquor industry. Researchers studying tobacco documents have found that liquor companies are terrified of going down the same route as the tobacco industry.

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Main Source: 
Perth Now (Australia), April 21, 2009
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Corporations
Health
Tobacco

AIG Told to 'Fess Up About Its PR

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"House Democrats are investigating American International Group Inc.'s role in a campaign to discredit its former chairman and chief executive officer, Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg, in the wake of federal bailouts to the insurance company totaling $182.5 billion," reports Bloomberg.

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Main Source: 
Bloomberg, April 14, 2009
Topics: 
Corporations
Economy
Public Relations

EDF Goes Nuclear on Greenpeace

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

An executive with the French government-owned energy company EDF "has been charged on suspicion of spying on the environmental group Greenpeace." The executive, "who previously worked as a police commander, is being investigated for conspiring to hack into Greenpeace France's computer system." Under investigation is whether EDF, "the world's biggest nuclear-reactor operator, hired a private detective agency run by a former member of the Frenc

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Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), April 1, 2009
Topics: 
Activism
Nuclear Power
Corporations

Shell Ends Its Small Investment in Renewables

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

The oil company Shell, which recently launched a blog about climate change issues, announced that "it will no longer invest in renewable technologies such as wind, solar and hydro power because they are not economic." Instead, "it plans to invest more in biofuels which environmental groups blame for driving up food prices and deforestation." Shell will also work to develop "cleaner ways of using fossil fuels, such as

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Main Source: 
The Guardian (UK), March 17, 2009
Topics: 
Climate Change
Corporations

Multinational Corporations' New World Water

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

The fifth World Water Forum, in Istanbul, Turkey, is titled "Bridging Divides for Water." It's an ironic choice, writes Mark Hays, as the corporations steering the Forum "have a stake in maximizing profits from water services delivery and the current global water crisis." The Forum is organized by the World Water Council, "an organization founded, led and influenced by transnational corporations, international financial institutio

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Main Source: 
AlterNet / Corporate Accountability International, March 16, 2009
Topics: 
Activism
Corporations
Human Rights

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