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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Banana Republicans -- An Ongoing Online Investigation
>2. Power Play
>3. The Enemy Press
>4. You Can Ask, but They Can't Tell
>5. Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them
>6. "Prop-Agenda" at War
>7. Air Cover for Kerry
>8. Debunking a Lot of Hot Air
>9. When Think Tanks Attack
>10. Sound-It-By-Me Science
>11. Global PR Blog Week
>12. Corporate Front Group Supporting Ralph Nader
>13. Terrorist Tree-Huggers
>14. Auto Exemption
>15. EPA's Election-season Roadshow
>16. Mooning the Masses
>17. Bond, Secret Agent for Outsourcing
>18. "Banana Republicans" on The Hill
>19. Reading, Writing and Roundup Ready
>20. New, Improved Mercenaries
>21. Frank Talk
>22. "The Digestive Tract of the Disinfotainment Industry"
>23. On the Road Again
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>1. BANANA REPUBLICANS -- AN ONGOING ONLINE INVESTIGATION
>http://www.bananarepublicans.org/contents.html
>   In writing the Center's newest book, Banana Republicans, authors
>   Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber experimented with collaborative
>   research, inviting visitors to the Center's website to contribute
>   their own research and analysis while the book was being written.
>   That process of collaboration is still continuing. If you'd like to
>   contribute, you can do so through the Center's online feature
>   Disinfopedia.
>SOURCE: June 30, 2004
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>2. POWER PLAY
>http://www.juancole.com/2004_06_01_juancole_archive.html#108843853517271330
>   The "handover of power" to Iraq is "a publicity stunt and has
>   almost no substance to it," says Middle East history professor Juan
>   Cole. "Gwen Ifill said on US television on Sunday that she had
>   talked to Condaleeza Rice, and that her hope was that when
>   something went wrong in Iraq, the journalists would now grill
>   Allawi about it rather than the Bush administration. (Or words to
>   that effect.) Ifill seems to me to have given away the whole Bush
>   show. That's what this whole thing is about. It is Public Relations
>   and manipulation of journalists. Let's see if they fall for it."
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088513657
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>3. THE ENEMY PRESS
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10775-2004Jun27.html
>   After New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau wrote a story
>   reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had collected
>   extensive information on antiwar demonstrators, FBI spokeswoman
>   Cassandra Chandler sent around a memo urging agency officials to
>   "please avoid providing information to this reporter," and the
>   Justice Department revoked his press credentials.
>SOURCE: Washington Post, June 28, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088444551
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>4. YOU CAN ASK, BUT THEY CAN'T TELL
>http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=332&sid=100
>   The U.S. Justice Department's Freedom of Information office
>   admitted that its database of lobbyists working for foreign
>   governments, political parties and companies is "so fragile" that
>   making an electronic copy "could result in a major loss of data."
>   The Congressional General Accounting Office has repeatedly stated
>   that the Department's Foreign Registration Unit "lacks the
>   resources to fulfill its responsibilities." The non-profit Center
>   for Public Integrity, which had its Freedom of Information Act
>   request for foreign lobbyist data denied due to technical concerns,
>   noted the irony of the Unit being "under-funded" while "the
>   lobbying activity it is supposed to track and make freely available
>   to the public is extravagant."
>SOURCE: The Center for Public Integrity, June 28, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088395203
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088395203
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>5. BLOGS AND THE BLOGGING BLOGGERS WHO BLOG THEM
>http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,1248609,00.html
>   "Not only are major news organisations rolling out blogs of their
>   own, but in the past 12 months the influence of bloggers over their
>   print, television and radio counterparts has grown massively,"
>   observes Paul Carr. "Consider a decision made by organisers of this
>   year's Democratic National Convention (DNC), next month in Boston.
>   So keen are John Kerry's men to get their message through to the
>   people of Blogistan that for the first time they have issued press
>   accreditation to political bloggers." Carr notes that the impact of
>   blogging is especially noticeable at America's newest radio
>   network, Air America Radio. Not only do the network's hosts
>   frequently cite news and other information gleaned from bloggers,
>   many of their listeners tune in via their Internet audio feed
>   rather than via the airwaves. "The effect of this is to guarantee a
>   large web-savvy audience for the station, an audience for whom it
>   is perfectly natural to visit the shows' official blogs and to
>   comment on what they're hearing, as they're hearing it," Carr
>   observes.
>SOURCE: Guardian (UK), June 28, 2004
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>6. "PROP-AGENDA" AT WAR
>http://www.antiwar.com/ips/gutierrez.php?articleid=2889
>   "In their widely quoted book Weapons of Mass Deception, Sheldon
>   Rampton and John Stauber argued in 2003 that the U.S. government
>   used the shock of the 9/11 attacks to justify an invasion of Iraq.
>   Bush counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke further denounces
>   President George Bush for using the attacks as a pretext for the
>   war in his book Against All Enemies published last March. For
>   propaganda expert Nancy Snow ... 'if war is the paint, then
>   propaganda is the paint primer that makes possible the total
>   devotion of the public to the just cause of the state in wartime.'"
>SOURCE: Inter Press Service, June 28, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088395201
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088395201
>
>7. AIR COVER FOR KERRY
>http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/nationalinterest/9372/index.html
>   Michael Crowley looks at the Media Fund and Americans Coming
>   Together (ACT), two liberal 527 committees who may spend as much as
>   $150 million before Nov. 2 in an attempt to defeat George W. Bush.
>   Although they are officially nonpartisan, 527s - used by both
>   parties - use a loophole in election laws to get around limits on
>   "soft money" spending by political parties. "The goal was to
>   provide some air cover [for Kerry] early in the campaign," says ad
>   man David Kessler, who has worked with the Media Fund. Kessler
>   compares the 527 ads to "the scene in Saving Private Ryan, when
>   they hit the beachhead and the shit's flying. That's what our job
>   was - take the f--ing beachhead and [Kerry] will come in when he's
>   ready." (So is it an air war, a ground war, or a naval invasion?)
>SOURCE: New York Metro, June 28, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088395200
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>8. DEBUNKING A LOT OF HOT AIR
>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=535576
>   The International Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes nuclear
>   power, concluded that "even under the most favourable
>   circumstances," nuclear power wouldn't slow global warming. An IAEA
>   report predicted that global warming would decrease more if "no new
>   [nuclear plants were] built beyond those already planned," because
>   "the world would have to be so prosperous to afford" a significant
>   increase in nuclear plants that greenhouse gas emissions "from
>   fossil fuels would have grown even faster." The IAEA's findings
>   undercut the Nuclear Energy Institute's claims that "nuclear energy
>   ... helps to keep the air clean, preserve the Earth's climate,
>   avoid ground-level ozone formation and prevent acid rain."
>SOURCE: The Independent (UK), June 27, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088308800
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>9. WHEN THINK TANKS ATTACK
>http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/blog/computers/tanks.html
>   Australian blogger Tim Lambert has taken a closer look at some of
>   the think tanks that have emerged as critics of open source
>   software, which threatens Microsoft's position in the marketplace.
>   "Why are all these think tanks so down on Open Source?" Lambert
>   asks. "Well, the Small Business Survival Committee is concerned
>   that using open source will expose small business to the risk of
>   lawsuits. Citizens Against Government Waste is concerned that the
>   Government might waste money on Open Source. Defenders of Property
>   Rights is concerned that Open Source might be a threat to
>   intellectual property rights. However, I was able to detect a
>   common theme to all their criticism. They all seem to be funded by
>   Microsoft." Lambert also notes that many of them, such as the
>   Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, have participated in previous
>   campaigns to deny the dangers of tobacco and global warming, while
>   receiving funding from the tobacco and fossil fuel industries.
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088274622
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088274622
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>10. SOUND-IT-BY-ME SCIENCE
>http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-science26jun26,1,7689856.story
>   In "the latest instance in which the Bush administration has been
>   accused of allowing politics to intrude into once-sacrosanct areas
>   of scientific deliberation," the Health and Human Services
>   Department asked the World Health Organization to allow the
>   Department's secretary to review meeting invitations. The WHO
>   refused, claiming that changing its long-standing practice of
>   directly inviting individual scientists could "compromise the
>   independence of international scientific deliberations." A
>   spokesperson for Department Secretary Tommy Thompson said, "The
>   World Health Organization does not know the best people to talk to,
>   but HHS knows."
>SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088222400
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088222400
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>11. GLOBAL PR BLOG WEEK
>http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/GlobalPRBlogWeek/EventInfo
>   The New PR Wiki, a website for PR pros, is organizing a "global PR
>   blog week," scheduled for July 12-16. Public relations pundits will
>   use the event to discuss questions such as "Why do you blog?" and
>   "Why is blogging important for PR?" The event will cover topics
>   including, "PR in the Age of Participatory Journalism," "Corporate
>   Blogging" and "Crisis Management," and will be hosted at
>   globalprblogweek.com.
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088139043
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088139043
>
>12. CORPORATE FRONT GROUP SUPPORTING RALPH NADER
>http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/108816503613780.xml
>   Citizens for a Sound Economy, a right-wing corporate front group
>   opposed to everything Ralph Nader has struggled for, is working
>   hard to help his 2004 presidential campaign in an effort to defeat
>   John Kerry. "'Ralph Nader is undoubtedly going to pull some very
>   crucial votes from John Kerry, and that could mean the difference
>   in a razor-thin presidential election,' reads a script used by
>   Citizens for a Sound Economy in its phone calls [to Republicans in
>   the state of Oregon]. 'Can we count on you to come out on Saturday
>   night and sign the petition to nominate Ralph Nader?' Russ Walker,
>   state director of Citizens for a Sound Economy ... said the idea of
>   helping Nader has been widely discussed among conservative groups
>   and activists in Oregon. 'It's definitely an interesting scenario,'
>   Walker said. 'We don't agree with Ralph Nader's positions on the
>   issues - he's socialistic and we're free marketers. ... We think
>   he'll take some of the more extreme votes from the other side.'"
>SOURCE: The Oregonian, June 25, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088136003
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088136003
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>13. TERRORIST TREE-HUGGERS
>http://www.tompaine.com/articles/terrorist_tree_huggers.php
>   "One of environmentalism's biggest foes - Ron Arnold - is back,
>   peddling the idea that environmentalism breeds terrorism," reports
>   Bill Berkowitz. "Arnold is the same man who once bragged to the New
>   York Times that, 'No one was aware that environmentalism was a
>   problem until we came along.' He's been so successful, says one
>   environmentalist, that he's now 'within striking distance' of
>   checking off every item on his 'wise-use' agenda."
>SOURCE: TomPaine.com, June 25, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088136002
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>14. AUTO EXEMPTION
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/business/media/25adco.html
>   "A new series of whimsical public service announcements from the
>   Environmental Protection Agency are lampooning the notion that cars
>   can be made more energy efficient while the ads encourage
>   conservation at home," reports Danny Hakim. The ads depict a wacky
>   home inventor trying to make his car more fuel-efficient by adding
>   a sail and "a helium tank with a bulbous hose ... Viewers are then
>   directed to a Web site that lists energy-efficient furnaces,
>   computers and dishwashers - in fact, just about everything but
>   cars."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 25, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088136001
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>15. EPA'S ELECTION-SEASON ROADSHOW
>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/25/leavitt/
>   With election season in swing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
>   administrator Mike Leavitt has taken his show on the road, visiting
>   key swing states to hand out pots of money for environmental
>   projects. "Leavitt's recent wave of swing-state politicking has won
>   his agency the moniker 'Election Protection Agency' in Beltway
>   circles," reports Amanda Griscom. According to Aimee Christensen,
>   director of Environment2004, "Not only has Leavitt made all his
>   major announcements in swing states - at the exclusion of others -
>   he's been incredibly selective about spotlighting certain problems
>   while he neglects the countless public-health controversies that
>   loom larger than ever."
>SOURCE: Salon.com, June 25, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088136000
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>16. MOONING THE MASSES
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/business/media/24adco.html
>   Outside Grand Central Terminal in New York, six men and women plan
>   to spend six hours advertising for a health club by flashing their
>   underwear at strangers, in the hope that passersby will notice that
>   the club logo appears on the garment. It's part of the growing use
>   of guerrilla marketing, which the Times describes as "a broad range
>   of advertising methods that strives to strike when people least
>   expect it."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 24, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088049602
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>17. BOND, SECRET AGENT FOR OUTSOURCING
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123562,00.html
>   The U.S. Commerce Department's under secretary of technology, Phil
>   Bond, said "excit[ing] kids" about science and math "as early as
>   elementary school" is a good way to counter the movement of
>   high-tech U.S. jobs overseas. Bond opposed legislation prohibiting
>   outsourcing (being considered in 37 states), saying, "If we embrace
>   isolation and reject working with the rest of the world, it will be
>   to our detriment." Bond spoke at a forum titled "Offshore
>   Outsourcing - Opportunities, Risks and Rewards," organized by the
>   pro-outsourcing industry group Information Technology Association
>   of America. At the same event, Banc of America Capital Management's
>   chief marketing strategist claimed, "The great misconception is
>   that U.S. companies go abroad for cheap labor."
>SOURCE: FOX News, June 24, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1088049601
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088049601
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>18. "BANANA REPUBLICANS" ON THE HILL
>http://www.thehill.com/daily_features/062404.aspx
>   Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber spoke with The Hill recently about
>   their new book Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning
>   America Into a One-Party State.
>SOURCE: The Hill, June 24, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1088049600
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>19. READING, WRITING AND ROUNDUP READY
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040623/cgw035_1.html
>   The agribusiness giant Monsanto will donate $50,000 to the
>   Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) Consortium. AITC is a
>   "grassroots program coordinated by the United States Department of
>   Agriculture," designed "to help students gain a greater awareness
>   of the role of agriculture ... so that they may become citizens who
>   support wise agricultural policies," according to AITC's website.
>   Monsanto said their donation will support "science education and
>   grassroots efforts that improve the understanding and acceptance of
>   biotechnology." Other AITC "Partners," who are encouraged to make
>   annual contributions, include the National Cattlemen's Beef
>   Association, National Mining Association, National Pork Producers
>   Council, CropLife America and Dole Food Company.
>SOURCE: Monsanto Company press release, June 23, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1087963200
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1087963200
>
>20. NEW, IMPROVED MERCENARIES
>http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/06/22/security_firms_293m_deal_under_scrutiny/
>   "A private British firm that won a $293 million contract from the
>   Pentagon for coordinating security in Iraq is headed by a retired
>   British commando with a reputation for illicit arms deals in Africa
>   and for commanding a murderous military unit in Northern Ireland,"
>   reports Charles M. Sennott. The firm is owned by Lieutenant Colonel
>   Tim Spicer, a former British military officer. Spicer's past work
>   includes a "psychological campaign" against the inhabitants of
>   Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, who were complaining about
>   environmental destruction from a copper mine on their island. To
>   clean up his image following the Bougainville fiasco, Spicer
>   employed PR consultant Sara Pearson, who hired a ghost writer to
>   help with Spicer's 1999 autobiography, An Unorthodox Soldier, which
>   presented him as the "modern, legitimate version of the new
>   mercenaries."
>SOURCE: Boston Globe, June 22, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1087876801
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1087876801
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>21. FRANK TALK
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54906-2004Jun19.html
>   A leaked memo by Republican advisor Frank Luntz advises GOP
>   politicians to avoid the words "preemption" and "war in Iraq" when
>   talking about the Bush administration's pre-emptive war in Iraq.
>   "To do so is to undermine your message from the start," he advises.
>   "Your efforts are about 'the principles of prevention and
>   protection' in the greater 'War on Terror.'" Luntz also recommends
>   that "No speech about homeland security or Iraq should begin
>   without a reference to 9/11."
>SOURCE: Washington Post, June 20, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1087704001
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1087704001
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>22. "THE DIGESTIVE TRACT OF THE DISINFOTAINMENT INDUSTRY"
>http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=192468&no=172250&rel_no=1
>   "If your calling is journalism, you enter the job market at the
>   same time that that the long and honorable history of American
>   journalism is traveling through the digestive tract of the
>   disinfotainment industry," declared writer Howard Rheingold in his
>   recent commencement speech at Stanford University. "But at the same
>   time, you arrive on the scene just at the moment something broader,
>   faster, and perhaps more democratic than the invention of
>   journalism is emerging. ... Young people in every part of the world
>   are using and inventing blogs, wikis, mobile messaging, desktop
>   video, digital music, online animation, social software. ... You
>   can -- you MUST -- innovate faster than your ability to innovate
>   can be enclosed by laws, regulations, and technological fences."
>SOURCE: OhMyNews, June 18, 2004
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>23. ON THE ROAD AGAIN
>http://slate.msn.com//id/2102498/
>   The New York Times recently attempted to contact former secretary
>   of state Henry Kissinger to ask about allegations that he had used
>   his influence inside the Council on Foreign Relations to quell a
>   debate concerning him in the pages of its magazine, Foreign
>   Affairs. Kissinger was "traveling and could not be reached for
>   comment," responded his assistant. Jack Shafer points out that this
>   dodge doesn't carry much weight anymore in these days of cell
>   phones, but lots of public figures still seem to have travel plans
>   that mysteriously synchronize with bad news that they don't want to
>   discuss. Examples include movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti,
>   U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Monica Lewinsky, Afghan
>   warlord Rashid Dostum, former U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey,
>   investor Warren Buffett, and Disney honcho Michael Eisner.
>SOURCE: Slate, June 16, 2004
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