Submitted by Laura Miller on
"The Pentagon has hired the Rendon Group to counsel and coordinate communications for Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports.
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Forest Service's controversial "Forests With a Future" campaign, handled by PR firm OneWorld Communications, includes a brochure explaining why increased logging will benefit Sierra Nevada forests. "The pamphlet... explains that fire risks have risen as the Sierra's forests have grown more dense in the past century.
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Tuesday's 2-to-1 vote against a Wal-Mart supercenter in Inglewood CA "has broad implications for the expansion of Wal-Mart across the country." Wal-Mart spent more than $1 million on PR for the referendum, compared to the opposition's $150,000.
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) may not "ensure adequate remedy for workers' rights abuses, protect women workers from discrimination, or improve domestic labor law enforcement," as Human Rights Watch claims, but it does have an international PR campaign.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Leslie Green at Stapleton Communications has a bachelor's degree in Marketing Communications from California Polytechnic State University, which must be where she learned how to stonewall reporters while still sounding upbeat. A detailed new investigative report charges her client, AXT Inc., with poisoning its workers with gallium arsenide, a potent carcinogen used to make semiconductors.
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Anna Perez, until recently the National Security Council's director of communications and Condoleezza Rice's "counselor of communications," will become NBC's chief communications executive in May.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
The Green Life, a Boston-based environmental organization, chose April 1 to release its "Don't Be Fooled" report on the "10 worst greenwashers of 2003." Winners included: Project Learning Tree, a front group for the American Forest Foundation; Royal Caribbean International, for giving itself an environmental award and shielding customers from information about raw sewage dumping and other forms of cruise ship pollution; the Environmental Protection Agency, for calling its plan to weaken the Clean Air Act the "C
Submitted by John Stauber on
"The United States-led occupation in Iraq
has enlisted a British public relations firm to help
promote the establishment of democracy in the country.
The firm, Bell Pottinger, based in London, is creating
television and radio commercials that will explain to
Iraqis how and why the United States is handing over
sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government in June. The
campaign will begin next week on local and satellite
stations in Iraq. Bell Pottinger, a subsidiary of Chime Communications, has
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"With the White House weathering allegations from its former anti-terrorism adviser, revelations about the health of Medicare and unrelenting turmoil in Iraq," George Bush is trying to recapture a "compassionate conservative" image to boost his campaign.
Submitted by Laura Miller on
The secretive Washington-based PR firm the Rendon Group apparently dealt the Columbian Ministry of Defense a losing hand.
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