Carbon Offsets: Feel Good Greenwashing?
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Holy International Diplomacy, Batman!
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Cartoon heroes are being "called upon to rescue the battered image of a very real-world institution -- the No
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San Francisco Zoo Hires PR Flack to Try and Save its Skin After Tiger Mauling
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Look, but don't taunt.The situation was about as bad as it could get for a zoo. On Christmas Day, Tatiana the tiger escaped from her enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, mauled a 17 year old boy to death and severely injured two of his companions.
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Stars and Stripes Fights DoD Hype
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"Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes are asking for full disclosure of the paper's relationship with a Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You, after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the newspaper," reports Sara Abruzzesse. "The newspaper's two top editors have asked that the acting publisher, Max D.
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Tortured Reasoning for Destroying Evidence of Torture
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Steve Benen writes that "As it turns out, the reasoning behind the CIA's decision to record interrogations on video, stop recording interrogations on video, and destroy the interrogation videos was all exactly the same: officials were hoping to avoid a public-relations nightmare." They were unsuccessful, of course, since the media reported widely on the destruction of the tapes and
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Wal-Mart Gives up Pretense of Independent Group
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In 2005, the Edelman PR firm created the front group Working Families for Wal-Mart on behalf of their client, the retail giant.
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An Industry Look at 2007's Biggest PR Blunders
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Fineman PR of San Francisco, California, has released their list of top ten PR blunders of 2007. Topping the list at number one is "No Reporters? No Problem" -- the fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about their response to the California wild fires.
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Numbers Game
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In late November the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the results of a survey of 353 East African corporate executives for its "Most Respected Company" award for 2007. The winner was the Kenyan mobile phone company, Safaricom. One of Safaricom's claims to fame is that it boasts the highest profits of any company in the region.
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Bush a Uniter -- of Iraqis, Against the U.S.
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The PR firm outed in 2005 for planting U.S. propaganda in Iraqi newspapers is still in Iraq, working for the U.S. military.
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New Participatory Project: Getting Behind GE's Green Gloss
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In May 2005 General Electric, which is now ranked as the world's tenth largest company, launched its "Ecomagination" PR campaign.
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