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[eccr] The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, June 9, 2004

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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Hot Summer Reading:  Banana Republicans
>2. Have a Gram, Don't Give a Damn!
>3. Getting Out the Vote, Religiously
>4. PR Meltdown
>5. Reagan and the Cold War: Myth vs. Reality
>6. 'Good' War Versus 'Bad' War
>7. Democracy Is Gr8!
>8. What the World Needs Now
>9. Art Imitates Life Sciences
>10. Irrelevant No Longer?
>11. Big Money, Bad Medicine
>12. Freedom Fries, Hold the Freedom
>13. Sweet Smelling Ash
>14. Super Surprise Me
>15. The Terminator, The Gipper and the Banana Republicans
>16. A Beef with Human Rights
>17. The March of Whose Freedom?
>18. Rotten to the DynCorp
>19. A Big, Right-Wing Bird?
>20. The Difference Between Terrorists and Wedding Guests
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>1. HOT SUMMER READING:  BANANA REPUBLICANS
>http://www.bananarepublicans.org/
>   Guess what we recommend for your summer reading? No surprise, it's
>   Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America into a
>   One-Party State, by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of our staff.
>   As with all of Rampton & Stauber's books for the Center for Media
>   and Democracy, 100% of the royalties benefit our work. If you
>   attend our organization's tenth anniversary bash on June 18th in
>   Madison , you can have Banana Republicans autographed for you by
>   the authors. Sheldon Rampton is currently speaking on a book tour
>   in Britain, Ireland and Scotland but he promises to return for our
>   June 18th celebration. We're very excited that  Amy Goodman of
>   Democracy Now! will be our special guest speaker on June 18th.
>SOURCE: Wednesday, June 9, 2004
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>2. HAVE A GRAM, DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
>http://thehill.com/business/060804_depression.aspx
>   "The leading drug-industry trade group and the U.S. Chamber of
>   Commerce are working ... to demonstrate the cost of depression in
>   the workplace and to show employers that treating affected workers
>   would improve the bottom line," reports The Hill. The American
>   Psychiatric Association, Chamber and Pharmaceutical Research and
>   Manufacturers of America endorsed a "depression calculator," which
>   allows employers to estimate the effect of untreated depression on
>   their company's profits, through absenteeism and low productivity.
>   The calculator also figures "how much the business would save if
>   employees were treated." However, the Chamber opposes
>   mental-health-parity legislation that would ensure equal mental
>   health and substance abuse healthcare coverage; their healthcare
>   policy director explained, "employers do not often get a
>   bottom-line return regarding employee benefits ... treating
>   depression is an exception."
>SOURCE: The Hill, June 8, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086667202
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>3. GETTING OUT THE VOTE, RELIGIOUSLY
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/politics/08church.html
>   House Republicans "quietly introduced a measure to make it easier
>   for churches to support political candidates, just days after the
>   Bush campaign ... [invited] church members to distribute campaign
>   information at their houses of worship," reports the New York
>   Times. "'Safe Harbor for Churches' ... would allow religious
>   organizations a limited number of violations of the existing rules
>   against political endorsements without jeopardizing their
>   tax-exempt status." Americans United for Separation of Church and
>   State's director, Reverend Barry Lynn, said the election year
>   timing "reeks to high heaven, literally." Bush campaign
>   spokesperson Steve Schmidt replied, "The campaign wants people of
>   faith to participate in the political process." On Tuesday, a state
>   campaign coordinator emailed religious contacts, writing, "The
>   Bush-Cheney '04 national headquarters ... has asked us to identify
>   1,600 'Friendly Congregations' in Pennsylvania."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 8, 2004
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>4. PR MELTDOWN
>http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1086445494365
>   As part of its restructuring, the debt-laden nuclear power
>   generator British Energy hired American Roy Anderson as its chief
>   nuclear officer, created a new technical director position, and
>   switched PR firms. Anderson, who's currently president of New
>   Jersey-based PSEG Nuclear, was welcomed by British Energy as
>   someone with "significant experience of nuclear turnarounds." In
>   April, British Energy ended its 14-year contract with PR giant Hill
>   & Knowlton and began discussions with Bell Pottinger Public
>   Affairs. However, upon discovering that Bell Pottinger director
>   Neil Stockley had signed "anti-nuclear policy papers when he was
>   director of policy for the Liberal Democrats in the 1990s," British
>   Energy ended talks with the firm at the "eleventh hour" and started
>   looking for alternatives, to "promote nuclear energy's green
>   credentials."
>SOURCE: Financial Times (UK), June 8, 2004
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>5. REAGAN AND THE COLD WAR: MYTH VS. REALITY
>http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/060704.html
>   Investigative journalist Robert Parry writes that "the U.S. news
>   media's reaction to Ronald Reagan's death is putting on display
>   what has happened to American public debate in the years since
>   Reagan's political rise in the late 1970s: a near-total collapse of
>   serious analytical thinking at the national level. Across the U.S.
>   television dial and in major American newspapers, the commentary is
>   fawning almost in a Pravda-like way, far beyond the normal
>   reticence against speaking ill of the dead. ... Yet absent from the
>   media commentary was the one fundamental debate that must be held
>   before any reasonable assessment can be made of Ronald Reagan and
>   his Presidency: How, why and when was the Cold War 'won?' " Author
>   William Blum writes that Reagan's "ultra-tough, anti-communist"
>   policies prolonged the Cold War, resulting in "pervasive suspicion,
>   cynicism and hostility on both sides."
>SOURCE: Consortium News, June 7, 2004
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>6. 'GOOD' WAR VERSUS 'BAD' WAR
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/politics/07letter.html
>   The 60th anniversary of D-Day was a major production, but most
>   previous anniversaries weren't. "A chronicle of each decade's
>   commemoration of Normandy shows how the passage of time has
>   softened the pain of the experience, and how the modern American
>   presidency has evolved into a giant stage production to promote
>   political goals," reports the New York Times. Boston University
>   history professor Bruce Schulman said recent "American presidents
>   have seized on World War II because it has this resonance of a
>   heroic struggle free of the ambiguities of later wars." Historian
>   David Kennedy said this year's anniversary illustrated "how much
>   Americans long for moral clarity." French President Jacques
>   Chirac's D-Day message was clear - the Allies fought "in defense of
>   ... a certain vision ... that lies at the heart of the United
>   Nations charter."
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 7, 2004
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>7. DEMOCRACY IS GR8!
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/international/middleeast/06DIPL.html
>   Bush administration plans for "the world's wealthiest nations to
>   declare their support for democracy in the Middle East" at the G8
>   Summit this week are backfiring. The declaration "has strained
>   relations with several important allies in the Arab world,"
>   including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan. The
>   declaration's original name, "Greater Middle East Initiative," was
>   changed to "Broader Middle East and North African Initiative," in
>   response to concerns that "greater" suggests "imperial ambitions."
>   Besides the declaration controversy, "this is not the time to be
>   seen with the American president," explained one Arab diplomat.
>   Missing from the list of invited Arab countries was Qatar, snubbed
>   because it hosts the Al Jazeera network. "It's strange, having a
>   summit declaration on democratic reforms and not inviting a country
>   because it has a free press," remarked another diplomat.
>SOURCE: New York Times, June 6, 2004
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>8. WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
>http://www.pipa.org/
>   Sixty percent of the nearly 19,000 people in 19 nations surveyed by
>   the Program on International Policy Attitudes agreed: "The world is
>   not going in the right direction." This view was strongly linked to
>   the opinion, held by 55 percent of respondents, that "the United
>   States is not having a positive influence in the world." A majority
>   of poll participants "does not think that rich countries are
>   playing fair in trade negotiations with poor countries"; believes
>   "rich countries have a moral responsibility to help poor countries
>   develop"; and trusts the United Nations to "operate in the best
>   interests" of their society. PIPA is a joint program of the
>   University of Maryland's Center on Policy Attitudes and Center for
>   International and Security Studies.
>SOURCE: Program on International Policy Attitudes, June 4, 2004
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>9. ART IMITATES LIFE SCIENCES
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/03/national1616EDT0719.DTL&type=health
>   "I feel sorry for Steve Kurtz because he lost his wife ... and he
>   didn't even have time to grieve," said art professor Beatriz da
>   Costa. Kurtz is part of the Critical Art Ensemble, an acclaimed
>   group "dedicated to exploring the intersections between art,
>   technology, radical politics and critical theory." Following
>   Kurtz's wife's sudden death, police found "biological materials" at
>   their home and involved the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Kurtz's art
>   uses plants, bacterial cultures and lab equipment. Adele Henderson,
>   a colleague at the University of Buffalo, called the ongoing FBI
>   investigation "a total paranoid overreaction." Another friend
>   commented, "There is no legal way to stop huge corporations from
>   putting genetically altered material in our food, yet owning the
>   equipment required to test for the presence of 'Frankenfood' will
>   get you accused of 'terrorism.'"
>SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2004
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>10. IRRELEVANT NO LONGER?
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5348071
>   The U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq "might be designated as war
>   crimes by a competent tribunal," warned acting United Nations High
>   Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan. In a Human Rights
>   Commission report, Ramcharan urged that "protection arrangements be
>   strengthened" by appointing an independent human rights monitor in
>   Iraq "immediately." The report also calls Saddam Hussein's ouster
>   "a major contribution to human rights" and acknowledged "the good
>   intentions of the Coalition governments." UN envoy to Iraq Lakhdar
>   Brahimi didn't feel so generous, when he responded to a question
>   about the U.S. role in forming the Iraqi interim government.
>   Brahimi said U.S. Ambassador Paul Bremer "is the dictator of Iraq.
>   ... I will remind you that the Americans are governing this
>   country."
>SOURCE: Reuters, June 4, 2004
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>11. BIG MONEY, BAD MEDICINE
>http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108630647391928651,00.html?mod=health%5Fhs%5Fresearch%5Fscience
>   "It's been pretty well established that publication bias is
>   associated with industry funding," says Brown University
>   epidemiologist Kay Dickersin, about drug companies squashing
>   unfavorable research results. Yet the "overwhelming majority" of
>   drug researchers receive industry funding, according to Canadian
>   clinical pharmacist Muhammad Mamdani. The drug industry trade group
>   PhRMA agreed in 2002 to voluntary rules in which companies promise
>   they "will not suppress or veto publications." New York Attorney
>   General Eliot Spitzer thinks those rules aren't working; he filed a
>   lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline charging that the company sought to
>   "manage the dissemination of data" on the potential hazards of
>   prescribing the antidepressant Paxil to children. GlaxoSmithKline
>   contends it has "acted responsibly."
>SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2004
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>12. FREEDOM FRIES, HOLD THE FREEDOM
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3773545.stm
>   The U.S. State Department is warning Americans in Italy that "not
>   all demonstrations" planned during George Bush's visit this weekend
>   "are expected to be peaceful." Italian peace groups are organizing
>   several demonstrations; one Rome-based activist explained: "We are
>   going to disrupt this visit ... because this city rejected the war
>   ... and [we] cannot do anything but to refuse this war's leader."
>   French activists will not have the same opportunity. The Financial
>   Times reports: "Demonstrations have been banned in central Paris
>   throughout this week to ensure no hostile protests" disturb Bush's
>   Saturday visit, when "he will be dining with President Jacques
>   Chirac." The ban "underscores Mr. Chirac's determination ... to
>   improve the chilly state of Franco-American relations."
>SOURCE: BBC, June 3, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086235201
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>13. SWEET SMELLING ASH
>http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=527695
>   British American Tobacco is carrying out animal tests on chocolate,
>   wine, sherry, cocoa, corn syrup, cherry juice, maple syrup and
>   vanilla-flavored tobacco. Former British health secretary Frank
>   Dobson remarked, "We all know that hardly anyone takes up smoking
>   when they are grown up. That is why the tobacco industry wants to
>   target children [with flavored tobacco]." Flavored cigarettes,
>   which were first sold by R.J. Reynolds in 1999, are facing mounting
>   criticism in America. Harvard School of Public Health instructor
>   Greg Connolly said, "By masking the natural toxic products of smoke
>   with these candy flavors, they're basically trying to turn a blow
>   torch into rice pudding." Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor and
>   tobacco executive John Hager has been nominated as assistant
>   secretary of education for special education and rehabilitation
>   services.
>SOURCE: Independent (UK), June 3, 2004
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>14. SUPER SURPRISE ME
>http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/512/512414p1.html?fromint=1
>   IGN FilmForce, a movie review website, took a look at the PR battle
>   against Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock's documentary about the 30
>   days he spent eating nothing but meals from McDonald's. "Over the
>   course of three days this week, IGN FilmForce came across three
>   separate press releases, from three different organizations, all
>   extolling the 'truth' about how the new documentary film Super Size
>   Me distorts the fact," they report. " You may have seen media
>   coverage taken straight from these press releases in the past few
>   days n on TV, in print or on the Internet. We thought it would be
>   interesting to take a look at the groups behind this press blitz
>   against a limited-release documentary film." Surprise, surprise,
>   they're all industry front groups.
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2004.html#1086184585
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>15. THE TERMINATOR, THE GIPPER AND THE BANANA REPUBLICANS
>http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber05272004.html
>   "Acting has been a stepping-stone to political careers for numerous
>   Republicans. In addition to Arnold Schwarzenegger examples include
>   Ronald Reagan the former governor of California and two-term
>   president of the United States. There are several reasons for this
>   disparity. One is that the Republican Party has actively recruited
>   and supported candidates from the entertainment world. Another is
>   that Republicans often run as 'anti-government' or 'non-politician'
>   candidates, so that an actor's lack of political experience can
>   actually be an advantage for his campaign. And although Bill
>   Clinton was clearly a master of showmanship, for the most part
>   Republicans have shown greater mastery of the rules of postmodern
>   politics, in which style is as important as substance and issues
>   are less important than personality. Republican candidates
>   understand these unwritten rules because they and their campaign
>   consultants, some of whom actually started in the entertainment
>   industry, played a big part in inventing them."
>SOURCE: Excerpt from the book "Banana Republicans," June 2, 2004
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>16. A BEEF WITH HUMAN RIGHTS
>http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040602/1/3krr9.html
>   In a move Australia's foreign minister decried as "outrageous and
>   indefensible, utterly at odds with ... an open and democratic
>   society," an American human rights monitor has been ordered to
>   leave Indonesia. The International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones said
>   her "immediate expulsion order" was arranged by the Indonesian
>   intelligence agency, whose director called her work "subversive."
>   Indonesia's intelligence director accused 19 other non-governmental
>   groups of "endangering national security before the July 5
>   presidential election." But Indonesia does want U.S. beef. The
>   country "cited a determination last week" by the international
>   animal health organization "that the U.S. was now considered to be
>   [mad cow disease]-free," and became "one of the first countries
>   besides Mexico and Canada to resume their imports of U.S. beef,"
>   according to AgWeb.
>SOURCE: Agence France-Presse, June 2, 2004
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>17. THE MARCH OF WHOSE FREEDOM?
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20040602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq
>   At the U.S. Air Force Academy's graduation, George Bush compared
>   the "War on Terror" to World War II, saying, "We will secure our
>   nation and defend the peace through the march of freedom. ... Just
>   as events in Europe determined the outcome of the Cold War, events
>   in the Middle East will set the course of our current struggle."
>   Officials in France, where Bush will mark the anniversary of D-Day,
>   warned,"Any reference to Iraq during the 60th anniversary of the
>   Allied invasion of France on Sunday would be ill-advised and
>   unwelcome." A "source close to President Chirac" quoted by the
>   Guardian said "photographs of U.S. soldiers torturing" Iraqi
>   detainees did not compare favorably "with the image of D-Day
>   heroes."
>SOURCE: Associated Press, June 2, 2004
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>18. ROTTEN TO THE DYNCORP
>http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8816810.htm
>   In Iraq, private military contractors "are protecting key leaders,
>   escorting convoys, guarding military installations or oil
>   pipelines, training Iraqi forces, interrogating prisoners ... some
>   have become entangled in firefights," reports Contra Costa Times.
>   "The potential role of contractors in the Abu Ghraib prison
>   scandal, and the legal obstacles to prosecuting them for reported
>   abuses ... have raised sharp concerns." DynCorp, whose employees
>   "escaped prosecution despite accusations in 2000 of running a
>   prostitution ring in the Balkans," had eight armed men at the
>   recent raid of Ahmed Chalabi's home and offices. The DynCorp
>   employees were "directing and encouraging" the raid, and some
>   "helped themselves to baklava, apples and diet soda from Chalabi's
>   refrigerator," according to witnesses.
>SOURCE: Contra Costa Times, June 2, 2004
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>19. A BIG, RIGHT-WING BIRD?
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18831
>   The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded two new
>   right-leaning shows - "one hosted by Tucker Carlson, who speaks for
>   conservatives on CNN's 'Crossfire'" and "one moderated by Paul
>   Gigot, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal" - while
>   cutting "NOW with Bill Moyers" from an hour to 30 minutes. Moyers
>   responsed, "CPB has ordered up programs for ideological instead of
>   journalistic reasons." Common Cause president Chellie Pingree
>   writes, "CPB board members tend to be big political donors who
>   often come with specific ideological agendas." Regarding Lynne
>   Cheney's suggestion "to the head of PBS that ... TV programs
>   starring herself might be a jolly good idea," Laura Flanders
>   suggests an adaptation of Sisters, a 1981 novel Cheney wrote, "full
>   of sex and romance and condoms and lesbian lust in the 19th Century
>   American West."
>SOURCE: AlterNet, June 1, 2004
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>20. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND WEDDING GUESTS
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6394-2004Jun1
>   "What exactly did U.S. military aircraft attack in the western
>   Iraqi desert in the early morning of May 19, 2004?" asks Jefferson
>   Morley. "If you read the U.S. press, that question is the subject
>   of legitimate dispute and official investigation. If you read the
>   overseas online media, you will find little doubt that the U.S.
>   forces, deliberately or accidentally, perpetrated a 'massacre' near
>   the village of Qaim that killed up to 45 people, including many
>   women and children. The difference in coverage of the May 19 attack
>   illuminates a key difference in the way news organizations reach
>   definitive judgments on matters of fact. U.S.-based news
>   organizations, much more than their overseas counterparts, are
>   willing to take statements from U.S. officials at face value.
>   Overseas journalists are more likely to put faith in the accounts
>   of Iraqi eyewitnesses and local officials."
>SOURCE: Washington Post, June 1, 2004
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