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>THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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>1. Journalists Unhappy With Election Coverage
>2. A Pre-Emptive Election Challenge
>3. Florida Revisited
>4. Mistakes Happen
>5. To Err Is Human, Says E-Voting Group
>6. Bush vs. the Laureates
>7. Junk Mailers Meet Ms. Brand America
>8. The Multimedia Election
>9. Faith-Based Presidency
>10. Sinclair's Journalism From Above
>11. Beware Lobbyists on Drugs
>12. Jailed for Blogging
>13. Ketchum Rated Reporters on "No Child Left Behind"
>14. Opening the Doors to Open Source Intelligence
>15. Hurrah for Alhurrah
>16. Knocking Rock the Vote
>17. Pfizer Doesn't Send Him Flowers, Anymore
>18. Ketchum Touts the Spirit of Davos
>19. Video News Releases: They're Everywhere!
>20. Bush Appointees Understand Industry
>21. Reach Out and Disenfranchise Someone
>22. Fake Blogs, True Buzz
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>1. JOURNALISTS UNHAPPY WITH ELECTION COVERAGE
>http://www.journalism.org/resources/research/reports/campaign2004/ccjcamp2004/default.asp
>   The Committee of Concerned Journalists, a consortium of reporters,
>   editors, producers, publishers, owners and academics, has surveyed
>   its own membership about the quality of election campaign coverage
>   this year, and the results aren't pretty. Nearly three quarters of
>   respondents gave the press a C, D or F grade, and only 3% gave an
>   A. By large majorities they felt the news media has become
>   sidetracked by trivial issues, has been too reactive and has
>   focused too much on campaign strategy rather than substance. They
>   gave particularly low grades to television and much higher grades
>   to newspapers and online coverage. The online news sites in fact
>   got more A grades than any other medium - a notable improvement in
>   the internet's reputation relative to other information sources.
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1098363833
>
>2. A PRE-EMPTIVE ELECTION CHALLENGE
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Kerry-Day-After-Strategy.html
>   Regretting Al Gore's quick concession in 2000, "Democrats are
>   already laying the public relations groundwork [for a protracted
>   election challenge] by pointing to every possible voting
>   irregularity before the Nov. 2 election and accusing Republicans of
>   wrongdoing." The Kerry campaign will have "six so-called 'SWAT
>   teams' of lawyers and political operatives ... situated around the
>   country with fueled-up jets awaiting Kerry's orders to speed to a
>   battleground state." While lawyers are mounting legal challenges,
>   "political operatives will try to shape public perception," saying
>   that "Kerry has the best claim to the presidency and that
>   Republicans are trying to steal it."
>SOURCE: Associated Press, October 21, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1098331200
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>
>3. FLORIDA REVISITED
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/markosmoulitsas/story/0,15139,1331610,00.html?gusrc=rss
>   Within an hour after voting began in Florida, "the system collapsed
>   in Broward County, ground zero for the 2000 fiasco in the state,"
>   comments Markos Moulitsas. He lists other allegations of election
>   fraud and voter suppression in states including Nevada, Ohio,
>   Wisconsin, New Hampshire and South Dakota, On his Dkosopedia
>   website, Moulitsas is hosting a "Voter Registration Fraud
>   Clearinghouse, where people are invited to report irregularities.
>SOURCE: Guardian (UK), October 20, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1098244800
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>4. MISTAKES HAPPEN
>http://www.regrettheerror.com/
>   A new weblog, "Regret the Error," is devoted solely to reporting on
>   newspaper errors.
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1098210656
>
>5. TO ERR IS HUMAN, SAYS E-VOTING GROUP
>http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/19/HNvotingproblems_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/19/HNvotingproblems_1.html
>   To "help journalists put election equipment-related snafus in
>   context," the Information Technology Association of America, which
>   includes several electronic voting machine manufacturers, is
>   circulating a media primer. "The document outlines a number of
>   woeful election day scenarios, from missing voter registrations to
>   incorrect ballot information and nonfunctioning electronic voting
>   machines. In each case, the ITAA offers possible explanations for
>   the mishap, often with the effect of exonerating the voting
>   machine." ITAA senior vice president Bob Cohen said one goal of
>   their outreach is for journalists to "not always assume that
>   problems with voting are due to failures of electronic voting
>   technology."
>SOURCE: InfoWorld, October 19, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1098158402
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>
>6. BUSH VS. THE LAUREATES
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/science/19poli.html
>   "For nearly four years, and with rising intensity, scientists in
>   and out of government have criticized the Bush administration,
>   saying it has selected or suppressed research findings to suit
>   preset policies, skewed advisory panels or ignored unwelcome
>   advice, and quashed discussion within federal research agencies,"
>   reports Andrew Revkin. The clash has been especially intense and
>   prolonged regarding the issue of global warming, where "scientists
>   say that objective and relevant information is ignored or distorted
>   in service of pre-established policy goals. Scientists were
>   essentially locked out of important internal White House debates;
>   candidates for advisory panels were asked about their politics as
>   well as their scientific work; and the White House exerted broad
>   control over how scientific findings were to be presented in public
>   reports or news releases."
>SOURCE: New York Times, October 19, 2004
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1098158401
>
>7. JUNK MAILERS MEET MS. BRAND AMERICA
>http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=30769
>   Last year, former advertising executive Charlotte Beersresigned
>   from her job as head of a U.S. State Department effort to improve
>   America's image in the Middle East. This week she spoke to another
>   group with image problems - direct marketers, the people who send
>   you junk mail and other unwanted commercial solicitations. Beers
>   gave them the same advice she gave "brand America": they should
>   "tell positive stories about what direct marketing is about."
>SOURCE: DM News, October 19, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1098158400
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1098158400
>
>8. THE MULTIMEDIA ELECTION
>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=73019
>   "Hardly a day goes by without someone sending me a link to a video,
>   Flash animation, or MP3 file related to the U.S. political
>   campaign," obsserves Steve Yelvington. "It's the first time that
>   multimedia files have been so thoroughly woven through the national
>   political conversation. JibJab's hilarious animations, "This Land"
>   and "Good to Be in D.C.," have been widely covered, but there's
>   much more. PBS has placed its excellent biodocumentary, "The Choice
>   2004," on the Web for online viewing. Jon Stewart's skewering of
>   CNN's Crossfire is posted all over the Web (although not at
>   CNN.com). The polemic "Stolen Honor: John Kerrys Record of
>   Betrayal," which is at the center of the Sinclair Broadcasting
>   controversy, is available for pay-per-view downloading. There's
>   widespread use of video in user-generated content, too, led off by
>   entries in a contest earlier this year sponsored by the political
>   action group MoveOn.org.
>SOURCE: Poynter online, October 18, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1098072000
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1098072000
>
>9. FAITH-BASED PRESIDENCY
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=
>   "In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire
>   that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications
>   director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to
>   Bush," journalist Ron Suskind writes. "He expressed the White
>   House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time
>   I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the
>   very heart of the Bush presidency. The aide said that guys like me
>   were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he
>   defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your
>   judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured
>   something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me
>   off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he
>   continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own
>   reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as
>   you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you
>   can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's
>   actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what
>   we do.'"
>SOURCE: New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097985600
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>
>10. SINCLAIR'S JOURNALISM FROM ABOVE
>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0410160112oct16,1,151711.story
>   The Sinclair Broadcast Group, the single largest operator of local
>   television stations in the United States, has gained notoriety
>   after ordering its 62 local stations to preempt prime time
>   programming to broadcast an anti-Kerry film a few days before the
>   November 2, 2004 general election. The order has prompted criticism
>   that Sinclair is "failing federal broadcast requirements to reflect
>   local interests ... a section of federal law that requires media
>   companies to cover local issues and provide an outlet for local
>   voices," reports Leon Lazaroff. The order to run the anti-Kerry
>   program is simply the latest example of how it imposes its
>   political will on its local affiliates. "The company increasingly
>   uses 'distance-casting' whereby local news, sports and weather is
>   uniformly broadcast to its many stations from Sinclair's
>   headquarters in suburban Baltimore," Lazaroff writes. "Television
>   viewers receive on-camera reports from 'News Central' that appear
>   to be coming from local stations. Sinclair spokesman Mark Hyman
>   delivers conservative commentary that must be carried on local news
>   reports."
>SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, October 16, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097899203
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097899203
>
>11. BEWARE LOBBYISTS ON DRUGS
>http://www.saturdaygazettemail.com/section/APNews/News/ap0490n
>   "When federal regulators started to scrutinize the safety record of
>   dietary supplements sold by Metabolife International Inc., the
>   company turned to the influential Washington lobbying and law shop
>   of Patton Boggs. ... For years, Patton Boggs earned millions
>   helping project reassurances to Congress and its customers that
>   Metabolife products were safe." As health concerns mounted, "Patton
>   Boggs lobbyist Lanny Davis wrote a senator whose subcommittee was
>   investigating Metabolife that the company had received only 78
>   'unproven, anecdotal allegations' of strokes, heart attacks,
>   seizures and deaths." The actual number of health complaints was in
>   the thousands.
>SOURCE: Associated Press, October 16, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097899202
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097899202
>
>12. JAILED FOR BLOGGING
>http://www.juancole.com/2004_10_01_juancole_archive.html#109795689940545757
>   Juan Cole reports that Omid Memarian, an Iranian writer,
>   journalist, weblogger and social activist has been arrested, making
>   him the fourth journalist to be arrested in an apparent Iranian
>   crackdown on reformist journalists and webloggers who are seen as
>   enemies of the regime. Cole urges people to complain to the Iranian
>   government or their interests section in Washington, DC.
>SOURCE: Informed Comment weblog, October 16, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097899201
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097899201
>
>13. KETCHUM RATED REPORTERS ON "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND"
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/16/politics/16educ.html
>   The U.S. Education Department paid $700,000 to the Ketchum public
>   relations and marketing firm, to produce two video news releases
>   and to rate newspaper coverage according to how favorably reporters
>   described the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law in
>   2003. Democratic Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Edward M. Kennedy
>   have criticized the Ketchum contract as "an illegal use of taxpayer
>   funds. ... A comprehensive, nationwide media study identifying
>   journalists and news organizations writing favorable stories on
>   President Bush and his political party's commitment to education
>   has only a political purpose."
>SOURCE: New York Times, October 16, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097899200
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097899200
>
>14. OPENING THE DOORS TO OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
>http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1097814155.php
>   The official report of the 9/11 Commission includes a pitch for a
>   new "open-source intelligence agency," which would focus on
>   developing government intelligence information from unrestricted,
>   non-secret sources. "The intelligence world lives and breathes by
>   secrecy, perhaps more so than is necessary," observes Charles
>   Cameron. "In a world that's shifting in a thousand ways from the
>   hierarchical to the distributed, from the top-down to the
>   bottom-up, and - gasp - from the authoritative to the democratic, a
>   more transparent approach to intelligence may be the wave of the
>   future, and open-source intelligence may be the key to that
>   effort."
>SOURCE: Online Journalism Review, October 15, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097812801
>To discuss this story in the PR Watch Forum, visit:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097812801
>
>15. HURRAH FOR ALHURRAH
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33564-2004Oct14.html
>   Alhurrah, the U.S.-funded Arabic-language TV channel, offers a more
>   pro-U.S. version of the news than other Arabic channels but is
>   having a hard time reaching many viewers because of the perception
>   that it is American propaganda. Mouafac Harb, Alhurra's news
>   director bristles at this claim. But as U.S. Rep. José E. Serrano
>   (D-N.Y.) said at a hearing in April, that's exactly why Congress is
>   funding it. "Do not tell us it's not propaganda, because if it's
>   not propaganda, then I think ... we will have to look at what it is
>   we are doing," Serrano said.
>SOURCE: Washington Post, October 15, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097812800
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097812800
>
>16. KNOCKING ROCK THE VOTE
>http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2004_10_10_archive.html#109779237957217297
>   After the Los Angeles Times reported on the youth voter
>   registration organization Rock the Vote's asking whether the draft
>   could be reinstituted "if the situation doesn't improve,"
>   Republican National Committee chair Ed Gillespie called the
>   campaign "reckless" and "malicious." In a letter to the group,
>   Gillespie wrote, "It is unfortunate that you feel the need to
>   engage in a misinformation campaign regarding an alleged draft to
>   energize young voters." Rock the Vote's president wrote to
>   Gillespie, "We think young people deserve to know where the
>   politicians stand on this issue - and that a generation that could
>   be called to service deserves more than the phony debate they are
>   getting."
>SOURCE: Rock the Vote, October 14, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097726402
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097726402
>
>17. PFIZER DOESN'T SEND HIM FLOWERS, ANYMORE
>http://counterpunch.org/pringle10142004.html
>   "A lot of people cannot afford life-saving drugs. Drug
>   re-importation provides an alternative supply at lower prices for
>   people who cannot afford the full price," said Dr. Peter Rost,
>   Pfizer's vice president of marketing for endocrine care and the
>   first drug industry executive to publicly support reimporting drugs
>   from Canada to America. Although Rost's support of reimportation
>   was done on his own time, Pfizer recently launched an investigation
>   into his political activities. "The questioning was intense," Rost
>   remarked - and biased, he claims. "If I had spoken out against
>   reimportation they would have sent me flowers."
>SOURCE: CounterPunch, October 14, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097726401
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097726401
>
>18. KETCHUM TOUTS THE SPIRIT OF DAVOS
>http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/1014ketchum.htm
>   Wanting to "highlight its efforts beyond the group's well-known
>   annual summit of world and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland,"
>   the World Economic Forum has hired the Ketchum PR firm's
>   London-based corporate communications unit. The WEF wants to
>   promote its "public-private efforts through its Global Institute
>   for Partnership and Governance," which addresses "'some of the
>   world's most challenging problems,' in areas like HIV/AIDS and
>   corporate citizenship" and builds on the "'spirit of Davos' by
>   organizing sustained processes of informal dialogue by leaders and
>   experts on selected issues."
>SOURCE: O'Dwyer's PR Daily (reg. req'd.), October 14, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097726400
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097726400
>
>19. VIDEO NEWS RELEASES: THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!
>http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/001015.asp
>   Thomas Lang and Zachary Roth have done some further sleuthing into
>   the Education Department's video news release (VNR) that featured
>   fake "reporter" Karen Ryan and promoted the No Child Left Behind
>   law. "It turns out that the No Child Left Behind VNR, presented as
>   news, ran more widely than we had thought - it's just that it
>   didn't always include Karen Ryan," they write. "A number of local
>   stations ran the VNR as is, and added a local twist by simply
>   having their own reporter read the script. And in an indication of
>   just how confident the Department of Education was that news
>   outlets would fail to adequately scrutinize the content of the VNR,
>   we've also found that it included sound bites in support of the
>   tutoring program from two figures whose appearance in the video
>   might have raised eyebrows had anyone thought to check. ... The
>   stations that took the time to have their own reporters record the
>   script of the No Child Left Behind VNR had to have been fully aware
>   of what they were doing: knowingly deceiving their viewers about
>   the origins of the story - not to mention committing plagiarism -
>   by passing off as their own original reporting words actually
>   written by a PR company hired by the Bush administration."
>SOURCE: Campaign Desk, October 13, 2004
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>
>20. BUSH APPOINTEES UNDERSTAND INDUSTRY
>http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usenvr1012,0,3704830.story?coll=nyc-nationhome-headlines
>   "Every administration has the revolving door," said former
>   Environmental Protection Agency attorney Bruce Buckheit. "The
>   difference is the attitude that a lot of the Bush people brought
>   with them. ... It was always about what industry wanted." Newsday
>   reports, "Bush's appointees to senior environment-related jobs
>   actually have less diverse backgrounds than the people Clinton
>   picked. ... Bush's choices were more likely to be lobbyists or
>   executives in their previous job, while Clinton's were distributed
>   more evenly among the worlds of business, academia and advocacy."
>   An EPA press secretary said, "You need to understand the industries
>   you're regulating."
>SOURCE: Newsday, October 12, 2004
>More web links related to this story are available at:
>    http://www.prwatch.org/spin/October_2004.html#1097553601
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>    http://www.prwatch.org/forum/discuss.php?id=1097553601
>
>21. REACH OUT AND DISENFRANCHISE SOMEONE
>http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
>   "Employees of a private voter registration company allege that
>   hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are
>   registered will be rudely surprised on election day," reports
>   George Knapp. "The company claims hundreds of registration forms
>   were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or
>   re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even
>   government building may be affected." Eric Russell, a former
>   employee of a Republican-affiliated company, called "Voters
>   Outreach of America," says he personally witnessed company
>   supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by
>   Democrats. In a separate incident, Nevada election officials have
>   rebuffed an attempt by a former GOP operative to purge about 17,000
>   Democrats from the voter rolls. (We reported on similar past
>   examples of "voter suppression" in a chapter of our recent book,
>   Banana Republicans.)
>SOURCE: KLAS-TV (Las Vegas), October 12, 2004
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>
>22. FAKE BLOGS, TRUE BUZZ
>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0410090289oct09,1,6293458.story
>   To market a new video game, Sega built a PR campaign around a hoax.
>   It created a weblog whose host called himself "Beta-7" and claimed
>   that the game caused him to suffer blackouts and uncontrollable
>   fits of violence. In reality, "Beta-7" was a fictional character,
>   invented by the Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden and
>   Kennedy.
>SOURCE: (registration required) Chicago Tribune, October 9, 2004
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