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[eccr] RE: message from Graham and Hugo

Sat May 17 13:48:23 GMT 2003


Nico
ma ny thanks for this and apologies.  We thought we were replying just to
you.
Here it is again
best
Graham and Hugo

>There is much talk of 9/11 and the forthcoming US presidential where the
>positions are already being jockeyed for.  Have a look at Revolutionary
>Conflicts by Richard Thackrah, published by Studymates, sold in Europe by
>Studymates and in the US by Trans-Atlantic publishing from Philadelphia.
>This contains an analysis of 9/11  and it is thought provoking.  The
>sub-title is Terrorism and unconventional warfare explained.  It is an
>important book for anyone who values democracy.
>best
>Graham and Hugo

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Subject: RE: [eccr] Fwd: The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, May 14, 2003


Dear Graham and Hugo,

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Regards, Nico

At 08:10 14/05/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>There is much talk of 9/11 and the forthcoming US presidential where the
>positions are already being jockeyed for.  Have a look at Revolutionary
>Conflicts by Richard Thackrah, published by Studymates, sold in Europe by
>Studymates and in the US by Trans-Atlantic publishing from Philadelphia.
>This contains an analysis of 9/11  and it is thought provoking.  The
>sub-title is Terrorism and unconventional warfare explained.  It is an
>important book for anyone who values democracy.
>best
>Graham and Hugo
>
>Original Message:
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>From: Nico Carpentier (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
>Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:29:47 +0200
>To: (eccr /at/ listserv.vub.ac.be)
>Subject: [eccr] Fwd: The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, May 14, 2003
>
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> >THIS WEEK'S NEWS
> >
> >1. 24-Hour Mid-East TV To Promote "Freedom & Democracy"
> >2. NY Nuke Plant Hires Giuliani
> >3. Big Media Have No Incentive Not To Please Party In Power
> >4. White House Denies Conflict Of Interest
> >5. Where Have All The Weapons of Mass Destruction Gone?
> >6. The War, As Told To Us
> >7. Salam Pax Back in Iraq
> >8. CNN's Aaron Brown Backs Out of Video 'News' Show
> >9. Campus Ink Tanks
> >10. Prime Time Liar
> >11. 'Green Industry' Prepares For PR Fight
> >12. DJs Nixed for Dixie Chicks Picks
> >13. The Secrets of 9/11
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >1. 24-HOUR MID-EAST TV TO PROMOTE "FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY"
> >http://www.thehill.com/news/051303/tv.aspx
> >   The White House expects congressional funding to the tune of $64
> >   million for the first-ever, 24-hour Arabic-language satellite
> >   television network. "The aim is to provide the Middle East's tens
> >   of millions of viewers with an alternative to their usual viewing
> >   diet of unremediated anti-American propaganda," the Hill's Melissa
> >   Seckora reports. Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting
> >   Board of Governors (BBG), called the proposed network "the most
> >   important public diplomacy initiative of our time." Westwood One
> >   media mogul Norman Pattiz, who sits on the BBG and has produced TV
> >   news for Iraq, bills the proposed Mid-East TV as a "journalistic
> >   mission" to "promote and sustain freedom and democracy," the Hil
> >   reports. "We want to give the Arab world an example of what a free
> >   press is. We want to do it in a way that is not like the
> >   sensationalistic approach taken by the media in that region, one
> >   that includes incitement to violence and disinformation," Pattiz
> >   said.
> >SOURCE: The Hill, May 13, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052798402
> >
> >2. NY NUKE PLANT HIRES GIULIANI
> >http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0513rudy_entergy.htm
> >   Fearing the Indian Point nuclear plant is an appealing target for
> >   terrorists, neighbors, activists and local officials are demanding
> >   that parent company Entergy shut down the facility, which is
> >   located 35 miles upstream from New York City. The New Orleans-based
> >   energy company, which owns nine other nuclear power plants, hired
> >   former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's PR firm to help out with
> >   security and crisis management issues. O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports
> >   that Entergy enlisted Giuliani Partners for its "real-world public
> >   safety experience" earned following the Sept. 11 attack on the
> >   World Trade Center. "Giuliani's firm includes former NYC police
> >   commissioner Bernard Kerik and fire chief Tom Von Essen. Kerik is
> >   to represent Entergy as 'in-house consultant,' and represent it
> >   before public hearings," O'Dwyer's writes. Burson-Marsteller does
> >   PR for Entergy.
> >SOURCE: O'Dwyer's PR Daily, May 13, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052798401
> >
> >3. BIG MEDIA HAVE NO INCENTIVE NOT TO PLEASE PARTY IN POWER
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/opinion/13KRUG.html?pagewanted=print&posi
>tion=
> >   The proposal to change the FCC's media ownership regulations "may
> >   be summarized as a plan to let the bigger fish eat more of the
> >   smaller fish," the New York Times Paul Krugman writes. Krugman
> >   warns of the danger of quid pro quos between the administration and
> >   big media. "Imagine a TV news executive considering whether to run
> >   a major story that might damage the Bush administration -- say, a
> >   follow-up on Senator Bob Graham's charge that a Congressional
> >   report on Sept. 11 has been kept classified because it would raise
> >   embarrassing questions about the administration's performance.
> >   Surely it would occur to that executive that the administration
> >   could punish any network running that story. Meanwhile, both the
> >   formal rules and the codes of ethics that formerly prevented
> >   blatant partisanship are gone or ignored. ... We don't have
> >   censorship in this country; it's still possible to find different
> >   points of view. But we do have a system in which the major media
> >   companies have strong incentives to present the news in a way that
> >   pleases the party in power, and no incentive not to."
> >SOURCE: New York Times, May 13, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052798400
> >
> >4. WHITE HOUSE DENIES CONFLICT OF INTEREST
> >   When George W. Bush visited the Santa Clara production facility of
> >   United Defense last week, most reports focused on Bush's praise for
> >   the company and its products. What wasn't covered was that the
> >   maker of the Bradley fighting vehicle and the Hercules tank
> >   recovery vehicle is controlled the by Carlyle Group and that George
> >   H.W. Bush is a paid adviser to United Defense. The Corporate Crime
> >   Reporter writes that the White House denied any impropriety in Bush
> >   Jr.'s visit to the plant. "[W]hat it the President's father was the
> >   President of United Defense," White House Press Secretary Ari
> >   Fleischer was asked. "Would that be unethical?" Fleischer
> >   responded, "What if the President's father was on Social Security,
> >   and the President wanted to strengthen the Social Security system
> >   so that all Americans could have a strong retirement?" Financial
> >   journalist Dan Briody, who wrote The Iron Triangle: Inside the
> >   Secret World of the Carlyle Group, told CCR, "Ari is very good at
> >   what he does. In this case his job is to dismiss and diffuse an
> >   obvious conflict of interest by using humor and logical fallacies."
> >SOURCE: Corporate Crime Reporter, May 12, 2003
> >Web links related to this story are available at:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1052712001
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052712001
> >
> >5. WHERE HAVE ALL THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION GONE?
> >http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030512fa_fact
> >   With George W. Bush proudly proclaiming victory in Iraq, many
> >   worldwide continue to ask, "Where are the weapons of mass
> >   destruction?" In the U.S., "Some [Congressional] members are
> >   beginning to ask and to wonder, but cautiously," a senior
> >   legislative aide told the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh. "For many, it
> >   makes little difference. We vanquished a bad guy and liberated the
> >   Iraqi people. Some are astute enough to recognize that the alleged
> >   imminent W.M.D. threat to the U.S. was a pretext. I sometimes have
> >   to pinch myself when friends or family ask with incredulity about
> >   the lack of W.M.D., and remind myself that the average person has
> >   the idea that there are mountains of the stuff over there, ready to
> >   be tripped over. The more time elapses, the more people are going
> >   to wonder about this, but I don't think it will sway U.S. public
> >   opinion much. Everyone loves to be on the winning side."
> >SOURCE: The New Yorker, May 12, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052712000
> >
> >6. THE WAR, AS TOLD TO US
> >http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0508-03.htm
> >   "Washington has constructed a simple, heroic narrative of freedom
> >   and asked us to ignore the much messier human devastation and
> >   tragedies of this war," novelist Diana Abu-Jaber writes in the
> >   Washington Post of the U.S. war on Iraq. "There are angry outbursts
> >   against America across the Middle East, and most Americans have
> >   almost no idea why. ... Our news programming has been instrumental
> >   in the marketing of this war. ... When I said on one radio show
> >   that I've traveled throughout the Middle East as an American, with
> >   American friends, and have felt nothing from the Arabs but
> >   friendship and hospitality, I received an e-mail from one listener
> >   who wrote, 'Don't you know that Arabs hate us? It's all over the
> >   news.' Of course, if Arabs are systematically portrayed as an
> >   essentially hate-filled people, that makes the marketing of a very
> >   expensive war and occupation much easier to manage."
> >SOURCE: CommonDreams.org, May 9, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052452800
> >
> >7. SALAM PAX BACK IN IRAQ
> >http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
> >   At the beginning of the war, an anonymous Iraqi calling himself
> >   "Salam Pax" was weblogging from Baghdad. The postings stopped for
> >   several weeks, but now he is back online, with a backlog of
> >   street-level stories about the war and its aftermath. "War sucks
> >   big time," he says. "Don't let yourself ever be talked into having
> >   one waged in the name of your freedom. Somehow when the bombs start
> >   dropping or you hear the sound of machine guns at the end of your
> >   street you don't think about your 'imminent liberation' anymore."
> >   On the other hand, he is "really glad that we can now at least have
> >   hope for a new Iraq. ... The truth is, if it weren't for
> >   intervention this would never have happened. When we were watching
> >   the Saddam statue being pulled down, one of my aunts was saying
> >   that she never thought she would see this day during her lifetime."
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052371856
> >
> >8. CNN'S AARON BROWN BACKS OUT OF VIDEO 'NEWS' SHOW
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/business/media/08DRUG.html?ex=1053398917&;
>ei=1&en=c51593379136b494
> >   In response to an article by Melody Petersen in the New York Times,
> >   "CNN said yesterday that Aaron Brown, its nighttime news anchor,
> >   would not go forward with plans to become host of a series of
> >   corporate-sponsored videos that look like news and are broadcast on
> >   public television stations. ... A Boca Raton, Fla., production
> >   company, WJMK, recently hired Mr. Brown and Walter Cronkite, the
> >   former CBS News anchor, to serve as the hosts of a program called
> >   the American Medical Review. Drug companies and other health care
> >   companies pay WJMK about $15,000 to have their companies or
> >   products featured in the videos, which are two to five minutes long
> >   and run between regular public television programming. ... WJMK
> >   markets other programs, including American Business Review and
> >   American Environmental Review, each with one of the newsmen as the
> >   host."
> >SOURCE: New York Times, May 8, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052366400
> >
> >9. CAMPUS INK TANKS
> >http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-johnson7may07183418.story
> >   At the Jesse Helms Center in North Carolina, more than a dozen
> >   earnest college students gathered for training in how to start
> >   their own conservative newspapers and opinion journals and how to
> >   pick fights with lefty bogeymen on the faculty and in student
> >   government. "By the end of the day, the student journalists were
> >   fired up for battle," writes John Johnson, "determined not only to
> >   change the tenor of notoriously liberal campus dialogues, but also,
> >   in the long run, to alter the basic makeup of the nation's
> >   professional news outlets. ... In the wake of Sept. 11 and the war
> >   on Iraq, seminars such as this one are brimming with recruits to
> >   the battle for the hearts and minds of America's college students."
> >SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052280002
> >
> >10. PRIME TIME LIAR
> >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23059-2003May6.html
> >   Stephen Glass, the writer who was fired five years ago for
> >   fabricating facts in his stories, has declined to speak publicly
> >   about the incident - until now. This Sunday, "60 Minutes" will
> >   feature an interview with Glass, who is promoting a novel about his
> >   frauds, titled The Fabulist. "Glass uses only one real name - his
> >   own - in a fictionalized treatment of how he bamboozled the world
> >   as a 25-year-old New Republic writer who always seemed to have the
> >   most colorful scenes and the most perfect quotes," writes Howard
> >   Kurtz. "Perhaps fittingly, the other characters all have fake
> >   names." Leon Wieseltier, the New Republic's literary editor,
> >   commented that "even in his reckoning of his crimes, he seems
> >   incapable of nonfiction. It's unbelievable. This may be the first
> >   novel ever written for the sole purpose of avoiding fact-checking."
> >SOURCE: Washington Post, May 7, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052280001
> >
> >11. 'GREEN INDUSTRY' PREPARES FOR PR FIGHT
>
>http://www.landscapemanagement.net/landscape/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=5
>6002
> >   The trade organization Professional Lawn Care Association of
> >   America wants "to create a positive message about the benefits of a
> >   well-maintained landscape." Landscape Management, a landscape and
> >   lawn care trade publication, writes that PLCAA is sponsoring a
> >   meeting next month to address "threatening issues" faced by the
> >   "Green Industry. ... These include issues pertaining to pesticide
> >   and fertilizer use, air pollution and water restrictions." PLCAA
> >   Vice President for Government Affairs Thomas Delaney recently told
> >   the PLCAA board of director, which includes representatives from
> >   lawn care business and the pesticide industry, that the "Green
> >   Industry and particularly the lawn care sector is under attack here
> >   in the United States and in Canada because of misinformation
> >   propagated by zealous activists."
> >SOURCE: Landscape Management, May 6, 2003
> >More web links related to this story are available at:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1052193605
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052193605
> >
> >12. DJS NIXED FOR DIXIE CHICKS PICKS
> >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19571-2003May6.html
> >   Country radio station KKCS, part of the Clear Channel network, has
> >   suspended two disk jockeys for defying the station's ban on playing
> >   music by the Dixie Chicks. The Chicks were banned from many Clear
> >   Channel stations after lead singer Natalie Maines criticized
> >   President Bush. The station has received 200 calls from listeners,
> >   75% of which want the ban lifted, but station manager says he gave
> >   the DJs "an alternative: stop it now and they'll be on suspension,
> >   or they can continue playing them and when they come out of the
> >   studio they won't have a job."
> >SOURCE: Washington Post, May 6, 2003
> >More web links related to this story are available at:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1052193604
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1052193604
> >
> >13. THE SECRETS OF 9/11
> >http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10
> >   "Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan
> >   designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the
> >   September 11 terror attacks," report Michael Isikoff and Mark
> >   Hosenball, "administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes
> >   battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the
> >   attacks. At the center of the dispute is a more-than-800-page
> >   secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing
> >   the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the
> >   attacks - including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given
> >   President Bush and his top advisers during the summer of 2001."
> >   Bush administration officials are "refusing to declassify many of
> >   its most significant conclusions" and have "essentially thwarted
> >   congressional plans to release the report by the end of this
> >   month."
> >SOURCE: Newsweek, April 30, 2003
> >To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> >    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1051675201
> >
> >
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