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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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Sent: 14 May 2003 14:30
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Subject: RE: [eccr] Fwd: The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Dear Graham and Hugo,
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I think you should ;)
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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