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[eccr] The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Wed Mar 31 07:06:16 GMT 2004
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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Kindler, Gentler War President
>2. Rendon Deals Losing Hand
>3. Glowing Reviews for Nuclear Power
>4. Bush's Other Brain
>5. Yellow Journalists?
>6. Shell Game With Human Rights
>7. Former Public Affairs Officer Speaks Out Against Bush
>8. Campaign Finance Deform
>9. Time for CNN, None for Congress
>10. Bad Times for Brand Martha
>11. The Smell of Money
>12. Covert Recruiting
>13. Spinning Spin Sisters
>14. When FOX Attacks...
>15. 'Anti-Chemical' = Pro-Public Health
>16. Don't Ask (Especially Not Now!), Don't Tell, Don't Employ
>17. Clear for Bush
>18. Jason Blair's Scandal Pales Compared to the VNR Scandal
>19. Voters Tune In and Drop Out
>20. Army Runs J-School
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>1. KINDLER, GENTLER WAR PRESIDENT
>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/03/30/bush_campaign_seeks_to_regain_compassionate_image/
> "With the White House weathering allegations from its former
> anti-terrorism adviser, revelations about the health of Medicare
> and unrelenting turmoil in Iraq," George Bush is trying to
> recapture a "compassionate conservative" image to boost his
> campaign. Republican strategists say that "cozy voter forums" are
> the way to go, and Bush has in fact "appeared at least nine times
> in the past seven weeks at carefully staged meetings... in a
> half-dozen states, including crucial battlegrounds like Florida and
> Pennsylvania." Local news coverage featuring "a relaxed, smiling
> Bush... with ordinary Americans" is key to the "conversation
> formula." Recent campaign photo-ops include Bush "with black
> families in the Philadelphia suburbs and with manufacturing workers
> in Kentucky."
>SOURCE: Reuters, March 30, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080622800
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080622800
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>2. RENDON DEALS LOSING HAND
>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040328-115803-2222r.htm
> The secretive Washington-based PR firm the Rendon Group apparently
> dealt the Columbian Ministry of Defense a losing hand. According to
> its website, Rendon has been working closely with the Colombian
> Army, Navy, Air Force and National Police on "message development
> and dissemination, strategic communications planning, and media
> event planning." To those ends, Rendon created a deck of playing
> cards featuring Columbian "narco-terrorists" -- otherwise known as
> members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and
> two other antigovernment groups. The Washington Times writes, "A
> State Department official ... said wanted posters in the form of
> playing cards are a poor fit in Colombia. In fact, he said, some
> diplomats were 'surprised' to find out last year that a defense
> contractor working in Colombia used its contract dollars to produce
> the decks." The State Department has blocked distribution of the
> decks. The Rendon Group gained notoriety for its work in Iraq --
> it's credited with creating the Iraqi National Congress for the CIA
> in the early 90s -- and for its post-9/11 contract with the
> Pentagon.
>SOURCE: Washington Times, March 29, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080536401
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>3. GLOWING REVIEWS FOR NUCLEAR POWER
>http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0329/p12s02-usec.html
> "A quarter century ago this week, a nuclear reactor at Three Mile
> Island [in Pennsylvania] underwent a partial meltdown... Since that
> time, no American utility has dared to build a brand new nuclear
> power plant... [But] power blackouts, rising natural-gas prices,
> and concerns about greenhouse gases have changed public attitudes,"
> writes David Francis. An Associated Press story claims: "By most
> accounts, nuclear power is back in style." But nuclear power
> critics have planned 48 actions in 18 states marking the Three Mile
> Island anniversary. An alert about nuclear industry subsidies in
> the federal energy bill notes: "The industry trade and lobby
> organization, Nuclear Energy Institute, had contact with
> Vice-President Cheney's energy task force 19 times -- reportedly
> more than any other interest group or trade industry."
>SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080536400
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>
>4. BUSH'S OTHER BRAIN
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/politics/campaign/28HUGHES.html
> George W. Bush's long-time advisor Karen Hughes hits the book
> circuit promoting her new autobiography Ten Minutes From Normal.
> While she's plugging her book, she's also plugging the president's
> re-election. The New York Times writes, "Ms. Hughes is the smiling,
> media-savvy White House representative whose book now wraps her --
> and, by implication, the president -- in the heroism of motherhood.
> Its theme is clear by the identifying lines under her name on the
> book's front jacket: 'Counselor to the President. Wife and Mother.
> The woman who left the White House to put family first, and moved
> back home to Texas.'" Hughes, however, won't be spending too much
> time in Texas once she steps full-time into her role as senior
> advisor to Bush's re-election campaign. She's already spreading
> "the message about Mr. Bush in her speeches around the country, for
> which she receives $50,000 each." Laura Flanders writes in her new
> book "Bushwomen," that Hughes is "a career woman, GOP leader and
> stay-out-of-the-home mom," who spent years massaging Bush's
> "compassionate conservative" message. Marvin Olasky who is credited
> with authoring the catch phrase, is hardly a friend to career
> women. According to Flanders, he's "a man who believes in his heart
> that success like [Hughes'] shames society."
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 28, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080450001
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080450001
>
>5. YELLOW JOURNALISTS?
>http://counterpunch.org/lindorff03272004.html
> Dave Lindorff calls it "a moment that spoke volumes last week about
> the spinelessness of American journalism." At Colin Powell's March
> 19 Baghdad press conference, "all of the Iraqi and other Arab
> journalists... got up and walked out, along with many reporters and
> camera crews from European and other countries," to protest the
> killing of two reporters for the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyya TV
> channel. "But the American reporters... [shunned the] act of
> professional solidarity in protest against rules of engagement that
> allow American troops to slaughter accredited journalists." In a
> letter to Donald Rumsfeld, the Committee to Protect Journalists
> asks "whether U.S forces are adequately taking into account the
> presence of journalists... and using appropriate measures to avoid
> endangering them."
>SOURCE: Counterpunch, March 28, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080450000
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080450000
>
>6. SHELL GAME WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
>http://www.corporateeurope.org/norms.html
> Corporate lobby groups such as the International Chamber of
> Commerce (ICC) have launched a fierce counter-campaign against the
> proposed Norms on Business and Human Rights, which were developed
> by a subcommission of the United Nations Commission on Human
> Rights. The Norms oblige businesses internationally to refrain from
> activities that violate human rights. In addition to the ICC, the
> Norms have been vigorously opposed by the Shell oil company, a
> self-proclaimed leader in the corporate social responsibility (CSR)
> movement. "Is this not the kind of campaign one could expect only
> from companies lagging behind and from free-riders refusing to
> adapt to social and environmental concerns?" asks the Corporate
> Europe Observatory (CEO). The motive behind Shell's opposition, CEO
> suggests, is that "the company generally gets away easily with its
> inflated claims concerning its social responsibility record. A
> recent report by Christian Aid documents that Shell's operations in
> the Niger Delta (Nigeria) are still causing serious problems for
> local communities. The report also highlights that most of the
> community development projects presented in various glossy Shell
> reports on CSR are in fact failing. Hospitals, schools and water
> supply systems are built but never start working, and roads are
> mainly used to boost oil production. But beyond the debate about
> the extent to which Shell`s CSR claims are actually greenwash and
> poor-wash, it is clear that the company is determined to prevent
> the emergence of international mechanisms through which communities
> could hold it accountable to its pledges."
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080415559
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080415559
>
>7. FORMER PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BUSH
>http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/26/1551246
> Former navy public affairs office Lt. John Oliveira told Democracy
> Now! that he didn't realize how stressful his military oath would
> be for him when aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt last year. "I had
> to get on television every day to talk to the American people and
> the international public and continue to sell them on the
> administration's policies, which I did not believe in," Oliveira
> said. He oversaw embedded journalists on the aircraft carrier,
> which at the time was in the eastern Mediterranean. "I'm [now]
> doing what I can to support our troops. Up until two months ago, I
> was one of those troops. I was unable to voice my opinion regarding
> the administration policies on how they were using our military.
> And one of the key things I say to Mr. Bush, 'support our troops
> and join us.' Because the way he's doing it is not supporting our
> troops, it's using them," Oliveira said.
>SOURCE: Democracy Now! March 26, 2004
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080277202
>
>8. CAMPAIGN FINANCE DEFORM
>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/26/its_a_lobbyists_paradise_in_washington/
> "With corporate and union donations banned by a new law, lawmakers
> are pressing lobbyists to raise campaign money," reports AP.
> Lobbyist-organized fundraisers must raise at least $10,000 "to lure
> a freshman lawmaker to one of their events," at least $15,000 for
> veteran members, and $50,000 for committee chairs. "We raise money
> for members of Congress because they become familiar with us as
> individuals and when you ask for time from them, they're more
> inclined to give it to you," said lobbyist Louis Dupart. Robert
> Walker of the Wexler & Walker lobbying firm lamented that
> "fund-raisers are becoming one of few ways lobbyists can see
> members of Congress," due to increased security measures at the
> Capitol.
>SOURCE: The Associated Press, March 26, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080277201
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080277201
>
>9. TIME FOR CNN, NONE FOR CONGRESS
>http://nytimes.com/2004/03/26/politics/26COND.html
> Condoleezza Rice is the White House official whose testimony is
> desired the most by the congressional panel probing the Bush
> administration's handling of Al Qaeda before the terrorist attacks
> on Sept. 11, 2001, but the Bush administration refuses to have her
> testify publicly. She hasn't exactly been invisible, though. In
> response to criticisms of the White House by former anti-terrorism
> czar Richard Clarke, Rice has been "spending the week on television
> and in news media briefings," note Elizabeth Bumiller and Philip
> Shenon. "She has infuriated some members of the panel, who wonder
> why she has time for CNN but not for them. On Thursday they
> questioned again whether she should be subpoenaed to testify. ...
> 'My gosh, I think she was on every single network the day the
> commission opened its hearing this week, attacking our witnesses,'
> said former Senator Bob Kerrey, a commission member and a
> Democrat." Joshua Micah Marshall notes that Rice has even been
> eager to reveal classified information if it helps the
> administration's image. "She's a veritable information geyser, a
> one-woman-FOIA," Marshall quips. "She just won't answer questions
> under oath." The Washington Post notes, moreover, that Rice's
> "flurry of media interviews and statements" have "contradicted
> other administration officials and her own previous statements."
>SOURCE: New York Times, March 26, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080277200
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080277200
>
>10. BAD TIMES FOR BRAND MARTHA
>http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/956.cfm
> "Company founders have long believed that placing their name on
> their company signals their willingness to stake their personal
> reputation and stand behind their products," observes the
> University of Pennsylvania's business school. "That's fine when
> things are going well and the company and the CEO whose name it
> bears are held in high regard. But what if the CEO falls from
> grace? What happens to a company if the CEO's name is in effect its
> brand o and then that name is tarnished? Rarely has that question
> come up more sharply than in the case of Martha Stewart, America's
> long-reigning diva of decor, who was recently convicted on
> conspiracy and other charges. ... When it is done right, brand
> personification can tap into the human desire to belong to a
> community. In the case of Martha Stewart ... customers could
> virtually lose their identity to that of the brand."
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080263942
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080263942
>
>11. THE SMELL OF MONEY
>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0403240263mar24,1,2641854.story
> "From Alabama to Illinois, grass-roots groups have turned to the
> courts in an attempt to shut down industrial-style concentrated
> animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, or to keep them from being
> built," reports Andrew Martin. Last year, the General Accounting
> Office found that "loopholes in federal regulations and
> inconsistent enforcement leave an estimated 60 percent of the
> largest CAFOs unregulated." Large livestock operations are fighting
> back through state-level "Right to Farm" bills promoted by the
> corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC's
> vaguely worded "Right to Farm" bill reads, in part: "A farm or farm
> operation shall not be found to be a public or private nuisance if
> [it]... conforms to generally accepted agriculture and management
> practices."
>SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, March 24,2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080236472
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080236472
>
>12. COVERT RECRUITING
>http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108017385495064899,00.html?mod=mm%5Fhs%5Fadvertising
> Army "situ-mercials" will air during the re-broadcast of a popular
> World War II HBO miniseries. "In one segment of the [Army] program,
> a modern soldier says, 'Once you put on this uniform, you feel like
> you are doing something that a lot of people can't do.' The program
> then shifts to a 'Band of Brothers' scene where one soldier asks
> another why he wanted to join the paratroopers. [Army
> public-affairs specialist Paul] Boyce says the effort is aimed at
> an older demographic that might influence younger people when they
> choose careers." The Army paid an estimated $800,000 to $1 million
> to air a special 22-minute show and shorter "situational" ads
> alongside "Band of Brothers" on the History Channel.
>SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080190802
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080190802
>
>13. SPINNING SPIN SISTERS
>http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0324sb.htm
> "St. Martin's Press has brought in Shirley & Banister Public
> Affairs to drum up conservative support for a new book accusing
> women's magazines of a liberal bend and constant focus on the 'woes
> of womanhood,'" reports O'Dwyer's PR Daily. "Former Ladies Home
> Journal editor-in-chief, Myrna Blyth, penned the tome, Spin
> Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism
> to the Women of America. In it she charges the $7 billion industry
> and a 'Girls' Club' of female media elites are exploiting female
> emotions and hawking a left-of-center, do-gooder agenda to their
> audience." Shirley & Banister is a PR firm that "specializes in
> getting authors onto conservative talk-radio programs."
>SOURCE: O'Dwyer's PR Daily (requires subscription), March 25, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080190801
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080190801
>
>14. WHEN FOX ATTACKS...
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22218-2004Mar24.html
> Shortly before former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke's
> testimony to the September 11th commission, "the White House
> violated its long-standing rules by authorizing Fox News to air
> remarks favorable to Bush that Clarke had made anonymously at an
> administration briefing in 2002. The White House press secretary
> read passages from the 2002 remarks at his televised briefing, and
> national security adviser Condoleezza Rice... called reporters into
> her office to highlight the discrepancy. 'There are two very
> different stories here,' she said. 'These stories can't be
> reconciled.'" On Tuesday, White House press secretary Scott
> McClellan read from Clarke's January 2003 resignation letter and
> stated: "There was no mention of the grave concerns he claims to
> have had about the direction of the war on terrorism." As
> journalist Chris Albritton has noted, moreover, Fox News committed
> "a major journalistic no-no" by publicizing Clarke's off-the-record
> interview: "A news organization that was included in a briefing
> with the agreement that it was on background - that is, with no
> quotes and the briefer not be identified - approached a source's
> former employer and offered to give up apparently conflicting words
> that the employer could use against the source."
>SOURCE: Washington Post, March 25, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080190800
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080190800
>
>15. 'ANTI-CHEMICAL' = PRO-PUBLIC HEALTH
> "Industry officials are expressing grave concern that a growing
> alliance between environmentalists and patient advocacy groups to
> link exposure to harmful pollution with chronic diseases and
> life-long disabilities could add credibility to activists' calls
> for stricter environmental requirements," Inside EPA reports. Bart
> Mongoven, who works for the private intelligence firm Stratfor,
> told petroleum industry officials, "In five years, the
> environmental community would like to see all debates [be about]
> the environment and health." He warned the audience at the National
> Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) annual meeting that
> connecting environmental issues to public health "works here." He
> said that one way for industry to fight these new lobbying efforts,
> which expand public health concerns beyond pesticides to industrial
> emissions and effluent, is to paint the efforts as being
> "anti-chemical," rather than in favor of a public health goal.
>SOURCE: Inside EPA, March 24, 2004
>Web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080104401
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080104401
>
>16. DON'T ASK (ESPECIALLY NOT NOW!), DON'T TELL, DON'T EMPLOY
>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-military24mar24,1,6772402.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
> "When they need people, they keep them. When they don't, they
> implement their policy of discrimination," said the director of the
> Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The group found that "the
> number of gays dismissed from the military under the Pentagon's
> 'don't ask, don't tell' policy has dropped to its lowest level in
> nine years as U.S. forces fought in Afghanistan and Iraq." In
> related news, the Log Cabin Republicans protested the Office of
> Special Counsel's decision to remove "information about
> sexual-orientation discrimination" from federal websites. The
> websites were changed based on the new Special Counsel's
> interpretation of a 1978 law, which he believes bans discrimination
> based on homosexual conduct, but not homosexual status.
>SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1080104400
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080104400
>
>17. CLEAR FOR BUSH
>http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-03-23-clear_x.htm
> The Clear Channel radio network says it didn't have a political
> agenda for canning shock jock Howard Stern, who has become an
> outspoken critic of President Bush. But new political contribution
> data shows that the network has given "$42,200 to Bush, vs. $1,750
> to likely Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 race," reports
> Jim Hopkins. "What's more, the executives and Clear Channel's
> political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal
> contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other
> entertainment company, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive
> Politics."
>SOURCE: USA Today, March 23, 2004
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1080018002
>
>18. JASON BLAIR'S SCANDAL PALES COMPARED TO THE VNR SCANDAL
>http://www.abusedbythenews.com/columns/col003.htm
> Web journalist and novelist Daniel Price points out that here at
> the Center for Media & Democracy we have been sounding the alarm on
> Video News Releases for over a decade. Price writes that "thanks to
> the Medicare fake news flap (see 3/22 'spin of the day' below)
> America has been formally introduced to the Video News Release.
> Except they've been around for twenty years and we've already seen
> thousands of them. You know life is getting strange when even Jon
> Stewart can't handle the irony. As host of Comedy Central's The
> Daily Show, America's leading source of mock news and news-mocking,
> Stewart devoted a chunk of the March 17 broadcast to [the Karen
> Ryan VNR controversy.] ... The real humdinger -- as Stewart was
> quick to point out -- is that the entire news report was bogus; a
> slick video package commissioned by the government, produced by a
> media communications firm , performed by a PR consultant, and then
> distributed to newsrooms all across the country. Forty different
> stations had shuffled the story into their homegrown newscasts,
> never once attributing the source. Upon hearing this, the Daily
> Show studio audience vented their surprise through a procession of
> screams and jeers. Stewart himself seemed to have a hard time
> wrapping his mind around the fact that out of TV's many
> journalistic outlets, it took a fake news show to expose a real
> news show for passing fake news off as real. ... Welcome to the
> strange and secret world of the Video News Release, where reality
> is bent in ways that even Jayson Blair couldn't imagine ... ."
>SOURCE: Abused By the News, March 22, 2004
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1079931603
>
>19. VOTERS TUNE IN AND DROP OUT
>http:///www.odwyerpr.com/members/0322bush_kerry.htm
> Communications consultant Fraser Seitel says this year's
> presidential campaign "promises to be the filthiest, grimiest, most
> mean-spirited in the history of the Republic." He predicts: "the
> Karl Rovian/ Bob Shrumian mega-million dollar PR strategies" will
> have Bush slamming Kerry as a "position-hopping, tax-popping,
> liberal toady" and Kerry painting Bush as a "bible thumping, fat
> cat pumping, right wing wildman." Noting Bush's penchant for
> western ranch imagery and Kerry's motorcycle photo-ops, the Los
> Angeles Times asked whether the campaign has a "Who is more macho?"
> subtext. And a recent survey of cable TV viewers found that "people
> are really unhappy about their role, or lack of it, in the
> democratic process."
>SOURCE: O'Dwyer's PR Daily, March 22, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1079931602
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>20. ARMY RUNS J-SCHOOL
>http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/soldierstories/story.php?story_id_key=5753
> The U.S. Army is training Iraqis, many of them translators, to be
> journalists. In workshops taught by military public affairs
> officers, students learn "things like news gathering, writing fair
> and balanced stories, interviewing techniques, ethics, the
> Associated Press Style Guide, and the role of the press in a free
> society," according to the U.S. Army website "Soldier Stories."
> "[The students] met for six hours a day, six days a week for about
> five weeks. Since completing the workshop, the writers have
> produced stories geared toward Iraqi readers about how Soldiers are
> helping the Iraqi people, positive changes to the country's economy
> and the history of their culture. In addition to 'Baghdad Now' --
> which is printed in English and Arabic -- their stories have
> appeared in the 1st AD's 'Ironside' Magazine and on several U.S.
> military Web sites."
>SOURCE: Soldier Stories, March 17, 2004
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> http://www.prwatch.org/spin/March_2004.html#1079499600
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> http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1079499600
>
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