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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
>
>1. Weapons of Mass Deception
>2. Sell Job on Iraq -- Worst Scandal Ever in US Politics?
>3. America's Matrix
>4. PR Firm Gets 'Public Interest' Groups Fronting for Industry
>5. Efforts to Contain Mad Cow Disease Fall Short
>6. FCC Ruling Fuels Movement for Media Democracy
>7. Show Me The Weapons
>8. Hyping the Heck out of Nanotech, the Next Biotech
>9. Spun Doctors
>10. Feeding the Rage
>11. War on Iraq Reads Like One Big 'Wag the Dog' Tale
>12. Save Our Spooks
>13. FCC Favors Industry Over Consumers
>14. The Unseen War
>15. Status Report on Iraq War Myths
>16. Former Hill & Knowlton Chair Calls PR 'A Game'
>17. HRT Maker's PR Activities Raise Concern
>18. Spinning Global Capitalism
>19. Trust In Media Keeps Slipping
>20. Middle East TV To Take Cues From American Cable News
>21. "Wal-Martizing" the Media
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>1. WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
>http://www.prwatch.org/books/wmd.html
>   PR Watch editors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have written a
>   new book, titled Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda
>   in Bush's War on Iraq. Available in bookstores on July 28, Weapons
>   of Mass Deception will be the first book to expose the aggressive
>   public relations campaign used to sell the American public on the
>   war with Iraq. Journalists and book reviewers should email our
>   office to request a review copy.
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054699200
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054699200
>
>2. SELL JOB ON IRAQ -- WORST SCANDAL EVER IN US POLITICS?
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/opinion/03KRUG.html?ex=1055646417&ei=1&en=c940ce95469728ba
>   Columnist Paul Krugman writes that "the public was told that Saddam
>   posed an imminent threat. If that claim was fraudulent, the selling
>   of the war is arguably the worst scandal in American political
>   history - worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra. Indeed, the
>   idea that we were deceived into war makes many commentators so
>   uncomfortable that they refuse to admit the possibility. But here's
>   the thought that should make those commentators really
>   uncomfortable. Suppose that this administration did con us into
>   war. And suppose that it is not held accountable for its
>   deceptions, so Mr. Bush can fight what Mr. Hastings calls a 'khaki
>   election' next year. In that case, our political system has become
>   utterly, and perhaps irrevocably, corrupted."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 3, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054612800
>
>3. AMERICA'S MATRIX
>http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/060103a.html
>   In a wide-ranging critique of the Matrix-like "false reality" that
>   Americans experience through their TV screens, journalist Bob Parry
>   examines the CIA's recent report on mobile laboratories that it
>   claims were designed to produce biological weapons. "The report
>   reads like one more example of selective intelligence, which spurns
>   plausible alternatives if they don't fit Bush's political needs,"
>   Parry states. "Captured scientists said the labs were used to
>   produce hydrogen for artillery weather balloons. In the CIA-DIA
>   report, U.S. analysts agreed that hydrogen production was a
>   plausible explanation for the labs." Moreover, "U.S. intelligence
>   analysts found no evidence that these labs had been used to make
>   biological weapons or that the two labs alone could produce
>   weaponized BW agents. But that was obviously the wrong answer. ...
>   So the CIA-DIA analysis veered off into an argumentative direction.
>   The report asserted that the labs would be 'inefficient' for
>   producing hydrogen" and "concluded that hydrogen production must be
>   a 'cover story.'"
>SOURCE: Consortium News, June 2, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526405
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526405
>
>4. PR FIRM GETS 'PUBLIC INTEREST' GROUPS FRONTING FOR INDUSTRY
>http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/06_02_03_pressrelease.html
>   "[T]he Gray Panthers, a public interest group that defends the
>   rights of senior citizens, took out full page ads in newspapers
>   around the country calling on federal officials to stop awarding
>   federal contracts to MCI WorldCom -- which committed one of the
>   largest corporate frauds in history. ... At the bottom of the ads,
>   in small type, is this: 'This ad was paid for by Gray Panthers.' In
>   fact, the $200,000 spent by the Gray Panthers to place the
>   newspaper ads was raised by Issue Dynamics Inc., a Washington,
>   D.C.-based [PR] consulting firm that represents the Baby Bells in
>   their fight against WorldCom and that specializes in 'bridging gaps
>   between industry and consumer groups on public policy issues.' ...
>   Over the past couple of years, Issue Dynamics played a pivotal role
>   in turning the National Consumers League from a consumer group into
>   a corporate front group. And last year, Sam Simon, Issue Dynamics'
>   founder and president, was named chairman of the board of the
>   National Consumers League ."
>SOURCE: Corporate Crime Reporter, June 2, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526404
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526404
>
>5. EFFORTS TO CONTAIN MAD COW DISEASE FALL SHORT
>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-06-02-edit_x.htm
>   In 1997 Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber wrote Mad Cow USA, warning
>   that that mad cow type diseases were possible in the U.S. Even now,
>   in the face of North America's first case of mad cow disease in
>   Canada, the powerful livestock industry and their friends in
>   government are refusing to adopt the strict British standards
>   regarding animal feeding and testing. USA Today editorializes that
>   "Lax federal regulation and enforcement have left the U.S. beef
>   supply and consumers' health unnecessarily vulnerable to an
>   outbreak of mad cow... . ... The 1997 partial ban does not include
>   cattle blood, which is fed to calves as a replacement for milk. ...
>   A total ban on animal additives in animal feed would greatly reduce
>   remaining risks. ... But the cattle industry and the FDA argue that
>   a ban on animal products in feed is unnecessary because adequate
>   safeguards against mad cow already are in place. ... That argument
>   hides the industry's economic incentive to keep low-cost sources of
>   animal protein in the diets of cattle."
>SOURCE: USA Today, June 2, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526403
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526403
>
>6. FCC RULING FUELS MOVEMENT FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY
>http://www.mediareform.net/conference.php
>   John Nichols writes in the Nation on-line that today's "3-2 vote by
>   the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to
>   corporate consolidation of control over the media capped a process
>   that ... bent the rules to serve the special interests. ... In
>   addition to provoking passionate opposition ... this spring's
>   debate over the six sweeping changes in media ownership regulations
>   drew more scrutiny of the FCC than had ever before been seen. And
>   that attention has revealed an agency where corporations that are
>   supposed to be regulated enjoy extraordinary access to the
>   regulators and the favorable treatment that extends from that
>   access." Nichols is one of many journalists, critics, public
>   interest activists and public officials participating in the first
>   National Conference on Media Reform this November 7-9 in Madison,
>   Wisconsin, geared to building a political movement to democratize
>   American media.
>SOURCE: The Nation online, June 2, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526402
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526402
>
>7. SHOW ME THE WEAPONS
>http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RJ53EER4TABMYCRBAELCFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=2865622
>   Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are asking the White House
>   for more information behind its charges that Iraq had weapons of
>   mass destruction. Reuters reports, "Senate Armed Services Committee
>   Chairman John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said his panel would
>   hold hearings on the issue, possibly along with the Senate
>   Intelligence Committee, because 'the situation is becoming one
>   where the credibility of the administration and Congress is being
>   challenged.' Rep. Henry Waxman of California, top Democrat on the
>   House of Representatives Government Reform Committee, called on
>   President Bush to explain why the administration repeatedly cited
>   dubious and later discredited documents to back a claim that Iraq
>   may have been pursuing nuclear weapons."
>SOURCE: Reuters, June 2, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526401
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526401
>
>8. HYPING THE HECK OUT OF NANOTECH, THE NEXT BIOTECH
>   "Nanotech joins biotech among those promising technologies that
>   hold the potential to change our world radically," Citigate
>   Cunningham vice president Bill Bennett told PR trade publication
>   The Holmes Report. Many in the PR industry are looking to
>   nanotechology as the next big thing. "Such potential will never be
>   without controversy, and already there are pockets of 'gray goo'
>   paranoia springing up. The key here is to show the marketplace that
>   the risks are no different than those attending the advent of the
>   ATM," Bennett said. While the PR marketers paid to over-hype
>   biotech are preparing to do the same for nanotechnology, public
>   interest activists led by ETC Group are raising serious
>   precautionary concerns about the downside of the rapidly developing
>   new technology.
>SOURCE: The Holmes Report, June 2, 2003
>Web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2003.html#1054526400
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054526400
>
>9. SPUN DOCTORS
>http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7400/1205
>   "Few doctors have heard of the world's leading medical public
>   relations companies - Edelman, Ruder Finn, Noonan/Russo Presence,
>   the Shire Health Group, and Medical Action Communications, among
>   others," write Bob Burton and Andy Rowell in the British Medical
>   Journal. "Yet barely a day passes without most doctors or their
>   patients being exposed to messages that have been carefully crafted
>   by these public relations companies, aimed at boosting sales of
>   their clients' drugs." Several other articles in the same issue of
>   the BMJ examine the ethical conflicts of interest involved in drug
>   company PR and the crisis of confidence they have helped create for
>   the health care industry.
>SOURCE: British Medical Journal, May 31, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054353600
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054353600
>
>10. FEEDING THE RAGE
>http://www.Journalismjobs.com/matt_labash.cfm
>   In a candid interview about being a conservative reporter, Weekly
>   Standard senior writer Matt Labash explained to JournalismJobs.com
>   why conservative media has become so popular. "Because they feed
>   the rage," Labash said. "We bring the pain to the liberal media. I
>   say that mockingly, but it's true somewhat. We come with a strong
>   point of view and people like point of view journalism. While all
>   these hand-wringing Freedom Forum types talk about objectivity, the
>   conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles
>   for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in
>   which it pays to be un-objective. ... Criticize other people for
>   not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great
>   little racket." Former executive editor of George Magazine Richard
>   Blow commented on the interview, "I suspect that liberals would
>   rather calm angry passions than incite them, that they seek harmony
>   rather than promote division, and as earnest as that may sound, I
>   still think it's better."
>SOURCE: Journalismjobs.com, May 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054337268
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054337268
>
>11. WAR ON IRAQ READS LIKE ONE BIG 'WAG THE DOG' TALE
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30KRUG.html?ex=1055601598&ei=1&en=cda94af2aafc8235
>   Columnist Paul Krugman compares the war on Iraq to the 1997 movie
>   Wag the Dog, saying that "if you don't think it bears a resemblance
>   to recent events, you're in denial" because "much of the supposed
>   justification for the war turns out to have been fictional. The war
>   was justified to the public by links between Saddam and Al Qaeda,
>   and Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. No evidence
>   of the Qaeda link has ever surfaced, and no W.M.D.'s that could
>   have posed any threat to the U.S. or its allies have been found.
>   ... Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, recently told
>   Vanity Fair that the decision to emphasize W.M.D.'s had been taken
>   for 'bureaucratic reasons . . . because it was the one reason
>   everyone could agree on.' ... For the time being, the public
>   doesn't seem to care - or even want to know. A new poll by the
>   Program on International Policy Attitudes finds that 41 percent of
>   Americans either believe that W.M.D.'s have been found, or aren't
>   sure."
>SOURCE: May 30, 2003, New York Times
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054267201
>
>12. SAVE OUR SPOOKS
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/opinion/30KRIS.html?pagewanted=print
>   "The American people were manipulated" about alleged Iraqi weapons
>   of mass destruction, says a member of the Defense Intelligence
>   Agency. Several U.S. intelligence officers who are angry about the
>   politicized distortion of their work and have formed a group called
>   Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. "While there have
>   been occasions in the past when intelligence has been deliberately
>   warped for political purposes," they stated in an open letter to
>   President Bush, "never before has such warping been used in such a
>   systematic way to mislead our elected representatives into voting
>   to authorize launching a war."
>SOURCE: New York Times, May 30, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054267200
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054267200
>
>13. FCC FAVORS INDUSTRY OVER CONSUMERS
>http://www.public-i.org
>   "The nation's top broadcasters have met behind closed doors with
>   Federal Communications Commission officials more than 70 times to
>   discuss a sweeping set of proposals to relax media ownership
>   rules," the Center for Public Integrity writes. "The private
>   sessions included dozens of meetings between broadcasters and the
>   agency's five commissioners and their top advisors. A June 2 vote
>   is scheduled on the controversial proposals, which critics fear
>   will touch off a major new round of media consolidation. In
>   contrast, FCC officials held five private sessions with Consumers
>   Union and the Media Access Project, the two major consumer groups
>   working on the issue, since the proposals first surfaced eight
>   months ago."
>SOURCE: Center for Public Integrity, May 29, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054180801
>
>14. THE UNSEEN WAR
>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16293
>   "Before arriving in Doha, I had spent hours watching CNN back home,
>   and I was sadly reminded of the network's steady decline in recent
>   years," writes Michael Massing. "Paula Zahn looked and talked like
>   a cheerleader for the US forces; Aaron Brown kept reaching for the
>   profound remark without ever finding it; Wolf Blitzer politely
>   interviewed Washington's high and mighty, seldom asking a pointed
>   question. None of them, however, appeared on the broadcasts I saw
>   in Doha. CNN International bore more resemblance to the BBC than to
>   its domestic edition - a difference that showed just how
>   market-driven were the tone and content of the broadcasts. For the
>   most part, US news organizations gave Americans the war they
>   thought Americans wanted to see."
>SOURCE: New York Review of Books, May 29, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054180800
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054180800
>
>15. STATUS REPORT ON IRAQ WAR MYTHS
>http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030528.html
>   In the wake of the war in Iraq, a number of questions have arisen
>   about events during the war and Iraq's alleged possession of
>   weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. Brendan Nyhan and
>   Bryan Keefer sift through the evidence to date and attempt to
>   separate spin from reality regarding events including the looting
>   of Iraq's National Museum and the capture and rescue of Private
>   Jessica Lynch.
>SOURCE: Spinsanity, May 28, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054094402
>
>16. FORMER HILL & KNOWLTON CHAIR CALLS PR 'A GAME'
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/nyregion/28PSYC.html?pagewanted=print&position=
>   "Public relations was a game," former Hill & Knowlton chair Dick
>   Cheney (no relation to the vice president) told the New York Times'
>   Geraldine Fabrikant. "It was a fun game, but it was really just a
>   game," said Cheney, who left PR to become a psychoanalyst. Cheney
>   worked for H&K, one of the world's largest PR firms, on business
>   takeovers between 1960 and 1993. Comments on the O'Dwyer's PR Daily
>   website take issue with Cheney's career move. "Cheney helps one
>   person at a time but a good PR writer helps millions," Ron Levy
>   writes. "PR person with health accounts can lead patients to
>   knowledge of drugs that help the mind and the body. ... Cheney
>   charges people for his advice but PR brings the public advice FREE
>   from the world's leading experts ... --experts who become
>   increasingly expert at their specialties while Cheney spent time at
>   what he now calls a game."
>SOURCE: New York Times, May 28, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054094401
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054094401
>
>17. HRT MAKER'S PR ACTIVITIES RAISE CONCERN
>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/28/1053801419770.html
>   The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a booklet put out by the
>   Australasian Menopause Society that "suggested [hormone replacement
>   therapy] could prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's and ageing skin,
>   yet ... failed to mention the established side-effect of blood
>   clots, or the accumulating evidence that the drugs were causing
>   heart disease" was drafted by HRT manufacturer, Wyeth, and its PR
>   firm, Hill & Knowlton. HRT's revenues for Wyeth are $3 billion a
>   year. With the release of a major study that reports a particular
>   combination of hormones are twice as likely to lead to dementia for
>   older women, the Herald writes, "there is more concern about
>   Wyeth's behind-the-scenes activities. Scientists who conducted the
>   dementia study are concerned that the company secretly briefed
>   selected medical societies long before today's JAMA paper was out,
>   in order to allow those societies plenty of time to prepare
>   positions for the PR battle that is certain to erupt."
>SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald, May 28, 2003
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2003.html#1054094400
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054094400
>
>18. SPINNING GLOBAL CAPITALISM
>http://www.redpepper.org.uk/May2003/x-GlobalPR.html
>   "[I]n a way the term public relations is misleading, because the
>   vast majority of PR is hidden from the public," David Miller writes
>   in the British magazine Red Pepper. "PR is much more important than
>   just media spin. It is the very lifeblood of the global capitalist
>   system. PR can only flourish as a profession and an industry in a
>   society run on market principles. The further a society moves away
>   from neo-liberal dogma the less role there is for the PR industry
>   and vice versa."
>SOURCE: Red Pepper, May 27, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054008002
>
>19. TRUST IN MEDIA KEEPS SLIPPING
>http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-27-media-trust_x.htm
>   "Public confidence in the media, already low, continues to dip,"
>   reports Peter Johnson. In a recent survey, only 36 percent of
>   respondents, among the lowest in years, believe news organizations
>   get the facts straight.
>SOURCE: USA Today, May 27, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1054008001
>
>20. MIDDLE EAST TV TO TAKE CUES FROM AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
>http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=180835&site=3
>   The White House is dedicating $60 million to the proposed Middle
>   East TV Network. The Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal
>   agency, will oversee the network, which will be headed by former
>   CNN Washington bureau chief William Headline. "The BBG is currently
>   doing market research in several Muslim countries that will
>   determine the network's programming," PR Week writes. "Government
>   officials are insisting that the network's purpose is not to
>   influence Muslims with US propaganda, but to bring independent
>   journalism into a region more accustomed to government-controlled
>   press. 'The network would present objective news and information in
>   a format similar to an American cable news network,' read a BBG
>   statement."
>SOURCE: PR Week, May 26, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1053921602
>
>21. "WAL-MARTIZING" THE MEDIA
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40440-2003May26.html
>   "Critics say the chance of hearing unique and offbeat voices in
>   broadcasting could drop dramatically even as the number of outlets
>   proliferates when the Federal Communications Commission votes on
>   media ownership rules in about a week," reports Reshma Kapadia.
>   "Like the Wal-Mart supercenters that have crowded out the
>   mom-and-pop stores on Main Street and changed the U.S. retail
>   landscape, the five major media owners could tighten their grip on
>   programming, squeezing out local and independent views."
>SOURCE: Reuters, May 26, 2003
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1053921601
>
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