Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Bush’s Third Term? You’re Living It
September 3rd, 2009Please understand: THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS THE U.S. IS FACING. The outcome of this election is meaningless, one way or the other. The more you keep grasping for glimmers of hope within the political system, the worse off you will be. … Will a big Democratic win calm people down? Maybe […]
New Zealand Government Orders Take Down of Article Detailing Vodafone’s Secret Deal with 2Degrees
September 2nd, 2009Via: Wikileaks: This is the text to a National Business Review (nbr.co.nz) article written by Chris Keall, detailing a secret interconnection deal ordered by former Labour Minister of Communications, David Cunliffe, between Vodafone New Zealand and mobile operator 2 Degrees. The file contains information that directly affects public policy (telecommunications regulation). However, the regulator, the […]
In 2006 a New Zealand Woman Was Held in a Psychiatric Ward for Saying 9/11 Was an Inside Job
August 31st, 2009Here’s the formal apology letter from the Northland DHB. Via: Clare Swinney: I was wrongly diagnosed as delusional by the psychiatric staff of Ward 7 at Northland Base Hospital in Whangarei and held hospital against my will for 11 days in mid-2006, because I maintained the attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by criminal elements inside […]
Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax
August 27th, 2009There’s no link on this because the author, Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D., emailed it to me. — Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. The alarm has been sounded. Politicians, pharmaceutical executives and media conglomerates would have us believe that a 1918-style pandemic is a real threat. The 1918 pandemic, however, evolved out of conditions […]
U.S. Military Hires Public Relations Firm to Screen Prospective Embedded Journalists
August 26th, 2009Via: Stars and Stripes: As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light. U.S. public affairs […]
Britain: 29% of GPs Will Refuse Vaccine; Another 29% May Refuse It
August 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: Many GPs, as well as their patients, may be reluctant to be immunised against swine flu once a vaccine is developed, surveys suggest today. A survey of GPs published on Healthcare Republic, the website of GP magazine, found that up to 60% of GPs may decline vaccination. Although the numbers who responded were […]
Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
August 21st, 2009Via: New York Times: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products. Experts […]
Video Ads in Magazines
August 20th, 2009Via: Financial Times: When some readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen built into the page. The marketing experiment – which is being conducted by CBS, the US broadcaster, and Pepsi, the soft drinks maker – recalls […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work for Michael Bay
August 19th, 2009Via: David Bordwell: Back in July, when I was watching films at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, I managed to catch several of the films in the Frank Capra retrospective. Two of them, Dirigible (above and left) and Submarine, were surprisingly spectacular, given that at the time Columbia was still a relatively minor studio. It […]
Britain: Only 1/3 of Nurses Willing to Have Swine Flu Vaccine
August 18th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Only a third of nurses have said they are willing to have the vaccine against swine flu amid fears it has not been tested enough, a survey has found. Frontline health and social care workers will be among the first to be vaccinated in October along with people with serious underlying health problems […]
