Iraq

Words About "Images"

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld actually need the media now more than ever," writes the Columbia Journalism Review's Gal Beckerman. Although the "conventional wisdom ... is that this administration views the press as vampires view garlic," White House criticisms of the media "have become essential to the administration's contention that progress is being made." The effect of this argument, Beckerman writes, is to sugggest that "We're not seeing car bombs ripping entire blocks apart and blowing dozens of Iraqis to bits.

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Main Source: 
CJR Daily, March 21, 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
Media

Lincoln Group: The Little Propaganda Shop that Could

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

The Lincoln Group, whose covert Iraq program was recently OK'd by the Pentagon, "is working to boost economic development in Pakistan." Lincoln is working with former U.S. diplomat Carol Fleming to increase "investments in the country's textile, energy, technology and telecom" industries.

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Main Source: 
O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), March 9, 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
International
Public Relations
U.S. Government

Oil for Food, Lobbyists, and Corporate Profits

Submitted by Bob Burton on

Prior to the October 2005 release of Paul Volcker's report on violations of the United Nations' Iraq oil-for-food program, the Australian wheat exporter AWB Limited hired the Washington DC lobbying firm The Cohen Group, which is headed by former U.S. defense secretary William S. Cohen.

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Main Source: 
Sydney Morning Herald, February 22 2006
Topics: 
Iraq
International
Lobbying
Public Relations

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