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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. Let the Campaign Begin: A Rundown of Potential 2008 Presidential Candidates
2. Old Scandals Never Die: The Troubles of Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
3. Falsies on Parade: The Worst Spinners of 2006
4. Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) in Critical Condition; Senate Majority Potentially at Stake
5. Election 2006: Democrats Extend Their Majority with Victory in Texas-23
== SPIN OF THE DAY ==
1. Sen. Harkin Hearkens: Junk Food Marketing "Out of Control"
2. Heard Any Fake News Lately?
3. White House Accused of Limiting Debate on Iran
4. How to Get Ahead in Drug Marketing
5. Fake News Increasingly Posted Online
6. Nuclear Industry Ads Challenged as Misleading
7. Saving the Internet
8. Trans Fat Spin Doctors Chart Legislative Risks
9. Glaring Product Placement Falls to New Low in New Movie "Bobby"
10. A Cause (-Related Marketing) for Joy?
11. With Only 23 Months Left, Undeclared Candidates Are Positioning
12. Playing High-Stakes Media Games in China
13. Drug-Addled Agency Failing on Oversight
14. A Letter Writer's Imagination
15. Taco Bell Seeks PR Antidote to E. Coli Cases
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== BLOG POSTINGS ==
1. LET THE CAMPAIGN BEGIN: A RUNDOWN OF POTENTIAL 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
by Elliott Fullmer
Guest blogger: Tim Malacarne
With the 2006 midterm elections just a month behind us, many
political observers have already turned their attention to the 2008
presidential election. For the first time since 1952, neither the
incumbent president or vice-president will be seeking his party's
nomination for the presidency. With such an open field, many
politicians on both sides of the spectrum are considering bids.
However, rather than run down the same list of likely candidates
that everyone else on the web is doing, Congresspedia is going to be
keeping track of which definite steps members of Congress and other
candidates have taken to run for president. We'll be updating our
page on the 2008 presidential election, but here's the current
breakdown:
For the rest of this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5556
2. OLD SCANDALS NEVER DIE: THE TROUBLES OF REP. ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FLA.)
by Elliott Fullmer
Three weeks ago, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
announced that neither Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) nor Rep. Alcee
Hastings (D-Fla.) would be the chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee in the 110th Congress. The elephant in the room during the
weeks of intense speculation before the announcement was Hastings'
controversial past.
To properly address the controversy surrounding Hastings, we
must go all the way back to 1981; the year Jimmy Carter left the
White House and Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme
Court. In that year, Hastings, serving as a federal judge in the
Southern District of Florida (he was first appointed in 1979), was
indicted for soliciting a bribe from two defendants convicted of
robbery in his court. Specifically, the alleged briber promised
Hastings $150,000 if he kept the defendants out of prison and
returned to them the funds they stole. The prosecution's key piece
of evidence was a transcript from a phone conversation (obtained
through a wiretap) between Hastings and his alleged co-conspirator,
William Borders. Hastings is heard saying:
"I've drafted all those ah, ah, letters, ah, for him, and
everything's okay. The only thing I was concerned with was, did you
hear if, ah, hear from him after we talked?"
For the rest of this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5526
3. FALSIES ON PARADE: THE WORST SPINNERS OF 2006
by Sheldon Rampton
Here at the Center for Media and Democracy, we've made our year-end
list, and our readers have checked it 1,204 times. That can only
mean one thing -- it's time to announce the winners of the coveted
2006 Falsies Awards!
The Falsies are our way of recognizing the most heinous
polluters of the information environment over the past year. We are
pleased to offer each Falsies winner a prize that truly reflects
their contributions to the public debate: a fake identity kit,
a one-way ticket to Palookaville, and a free subscription to
the email service that keeps sending us offers for herbal Viagra and
business opportunities involving former Nigerian dictators. Falsies
winners may collect their prizes by personally visiting our office
in Madison, Wisconsin, on any Tuesday between 11:03 and 11:07 a.m.
and filling out our 75-page short form.
For the rest of this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5522
4. SEN. TIM JOHNSON (D-S.D.) IN CRITICAL CONDITION; SENATE MAJORITY POTENTIALLY AT STAKE
by Elliott Fullmer
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) is recovering from surgery at George
Washington University Hospital to stop bleeding in his brain caused
by an arteriovenous malformation, a condition which causes arteries
and veins to grow abnormally large. Johnson's condition was
described as "critical" by hospital officials early this morning.
Around 9:30 a.m., an attending physician described the surgery as
"successful" and stated that Johnson was "recovering without
complication." He added, however, that it was "premature to
determine whether further surgery will be required or to assess any
long term prognosis." He was first hospitalized late yesterday
morning after suffering from stroke-like symptoms on Capitol Hill.
Johnson, 59, is a two-term senator whose current term expires in two
years.
For the rest of this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5547
5. ELECTION 2006: DEMOCRATS EXTEND THEIR MAJORITY WITH VICTORY IN TEXAS-23
by Elliott Fullmer
In a runoff election held yesterday in Texas's 23rd District, former
Democratic Rep. Ciro Rodriguez defeated incumbent Rep. Henry Bonilla
(R-Texas), 55%-45%. With Rodriguez's win, the Democrats now stand to
hold a 233-202 advantage when the 110th Congress convenes next
month.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that a 2003 reconfiguration of
the 23rd District (orchestrated by former Rep. Tom DeLay)
unconstitutionally violated the voting rights of Latinos. The ruling
threw out the results from the primary, which had already occurred,
and opened up the November 7th election to all interested
candidates. Because Bonilla narrowly missed the required 50% for
victory on that day, a runoff election was ordered between Bonilla
and Rodriguez, who finished second. With his victory in the runoff,
Rodriguez will now return to Congress, where he previously served
from 1997 to 2005 in Texas's 28th District.
For the rest of this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5544
== SPIN OF THE DAY ==
1. SEN. HARKIN HEARKENS: JUNK FOOD MARKETING "OUT OF CONTROL"
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/20/KIDSADS.TMP
The new Congress is likely to put new and stronger emphasis on
limiting junk food marketing, say aides to U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin,
D-Iowa. Harkin becomes chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition
and Forestry Committee in 2007. His aides report that food marketing
to children "will be one of our top tier agenda items." In recent
years, Harkin futilely has sought to push through legislation
toughening Federal Trade Commission authority to regulate junk food
marketing. Thirty years ago, attempts to limit ads to kids based
upon concerns about tooth decay failed. Since then, obesity has
become a high profile issue, with the rate of overweight children
more than doubling. A coalition of food makers that controls about
two-thirds of food and drink ads to children under 12 has announced
voluntary advertising guidelines, but "half of the ads [are] still
selling junk food," says Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director of
the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5567
2. HEARD ANY FAKE NEWS LATELY?
www.prweek.com/us/features/article/609306/
PR Week's "PR Toolbox" column has some helpful hints for placing
audio news releases (ANRs), the radio cousin of video news releases
(VNRs). "The use of guaranteed airings has become an attractive
option for clients," says Christopher Sweet of VNR-1 Communications.
With "guaranteed airings," Sweet explains, "spot time is purchased,
but the ANR airs in its entirety during a prime-time news segment.
The result is an airing which is sufficiently embedded in news
programming and garners all the potential audience numbers the
network of choice has to offer." Sweet suggests that interested
companies hire "broadcast PR vendors with strong radio-network
relationships" to find a "guaranteed airings system that suits your
concept and budget." The column does not mention how to ensure
listeners' right to know that such segments are sponsored PR
material.
SOURCE: PR Week (sub req'd), December 12, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5566
3. WHITE HOUSE ACCUSED OF LIMITING DEBATE ON IRAN
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-censor19dec19,1,5975603.story
Former CIA analyst and National Security Council official Flynt
Leverett has accused the White House of trying "to silence his
criticism of Middle East policies by ordering the CIA to censor an
op-ed column he wrote." Leverett said the CIA's attempt to remove
already-public information about prior U.S. contacts with Iran from
his op-ed is intended "to silence an established critic of the
administration's foreign policy incompetence at a moment when the
White House is working hard to fend off political pressure to take a
different approach." A CIA spokesman said the agency's review of the
op-ed is ongoing, and "more often than not the issues are worked
out." An anonymous White House official dismissed Leverett's claims,
saying, "There was nothing political here." Leverett's op-ed faults
the administration for not taking Tehran up on a 2003 offer to
"settle several disputes between the two countries," and predicts
that "any deal that Washington made now would be on less favorable
terms, because Iran had gained strength in the region and the United
States was tied down in Iraq."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5565
4. HOW TO GET AHEAD IN DRUG MARKETING
www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/business/18drug.html
According to internal marketing documents, "Eli Lilly encouraged
primary care physicians to use Zyprexa, a powerful drug for
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in patients who did not have
either condition." Under U.S. law, companies can't promote
"prescription drugs for conditions for which they have not been
approved ... although doctors can prescribe drugs to any patient
they wish." Yet documents leaked to the New York Times describe "a
multiyear promotional campaign" called "Viva Zyprexa," in which
"Lilly told its sales representatives to suggest that doctors
prescribe Zyprexa to older patients with symptoms of dementia." One
document states "dementia should be first message" for primary care
doctors, since they "do not treat bipolar" or schizophrenia, but "do
treat dementia." Three months after its launch, the Zyprexa campaign
"led to 49,000 new prescriptions. ... In 2002, the company changed
the name of the primary care campaign to 'Zyprexa Limitless' and
began to focus on people with mild dipolar disorder who had
previously been diagnosed as depressed -- even though Zyprexa has
been approved only for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder,
not depression."
SOURCE: New York Times, December 18, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5564
5. FAKE NEWS INCREASINGLY POSTED ONLINE
www.prweek.com/us/search/article/609305/Inside-videos-second-home/
Video news releases (VNRs) aren't just for television anymore. "Hurt
by public criticism of VNRs, possible Federal Communications
Commission oversight, and a shrunken news hole," broadcast PR firms
"are looking for ways to survive -- and making the Internet a bigger
part of their offerings could be the answer," writes PR Week. "We
have to utilize different tools to reach consumers on multiple
platforms," explained MultiVu's Beverley Yehuda. "Podcasting is
becoming perhaps a greater-use element of [VNRs] than broadcasting,"
according to Jack Trammell of VNR-1 Communications. "Broadcast is
about reaching a massive audience," while websites allow "meaningful
interactions" with thousands of people, explained Medialink
Worldwide's Larry Thomas. VNRs and B-roll videos are being posted to
video-sharing sites like YouTube, company websites, and news
outlets' websites. "There is more usage of video by news
organizations than ever before, whether broadcast or online," said
The NewsMarket's Shoba Purushothaman, adding that "newspaper Web
sites are hungry for video content."
SOURCE: PR Week (sub req'd), December 18, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5563
6. NUCLEAR INDUSTRY ADS CHALLENGED AS MISLEADING
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/12/18/pf-2859919.html
The Canadian Nuclear Association's $1.7 million ad campaign touting
nuclear power as "clean, reliable and affordable" is the target of a
false-advertising complaint filed by a coalition of environmental,
health and church groups. "Our concern is that the nuclear
industry's advertising budget and approach distorts objective
decisions ... about the future of [Canada's] electricity system,"
explained Julia Langer of WWF-Canada. The formal complaint, filed
with Canada's Competition Bureau, says that presenting nuclear power
as "clean" is misleading, given hazardous byproducts "from the
mining of uranium fuel" and the radioactive waste generated by
nuclear reactors, which "remains dangerous for thousands of years."
Dennis Bueckert reports, "Canada still lacks a plan for permanent
disposal of nuclear waste although the problem has been under study
for many years." The Competition Bureau "receives 40,000 complaints
a year," and does not investigate every one.
SOURCE: CNEWS (Canada), December 18, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5562
7. SAVING THE INTERNET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt0XUocViE
The Save the Internet Coalition has released a new video explaining
the issues at stake in the net neutrality debate. CMD's own
recently-released Falsies Awards gave the telecom industry a Bronze
Falsie for its deceptive use of more than a dozen industry-funded
front groups to oppose net neutrality.
SOURCE: Save the Internet Coalition
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5561
8. TRANS FAT SPIN DOCTORS CHART LEGISLATIVE RISKS
www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3200
The spin-driven restaurant and beverage industry front group, the
Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), has created a grass roots
compilation of city, county and state efforts to ban added trans
fats in restaurant food. From Boston's Health Commissioner to
Cleveland's City Council to Washington State's Board of Health,
various government agencies nationwide are sponsoring ordinances,
regulations and laws to forbid partially hydrogenated oils. "We know
that trans fat consumption leads to serious health problems and we
believe that it's government's role...to do what we can to encourage
people to consume healthy food," CCF's "Daily Headlines" quotes
Boston Public Health Commission executive director John Auerbach.
CCF also notes budding Chicago action and quotes Alderman Edward
Burke--once famous for stalling progressive ordinance proposals
under the late Mayor Harold Washington--calling trans fats "cruelty
to human beings." CCF calls New York City's landmark December 2006
ban "outrageous" and derides all the anti-trans fat lawmakers as
"having nothing better to do."
SOURCE: Center for Consumer Freedom, December 15, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5554
9. GLARING PRODUCT PLACEMENT FALLS TO NEW LOW IN NEW MOVIE "BOBBY"
A full-page ad in Variety magazine (the trade magazine of the
entertainment industry) calls attention to the odd, front-and-center
placement of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in the movie "Bobby," a
fictionalized account of the 1968 assassination of U.S. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy. At a time when cigarette brand identification in
movies is finally getting rarer, the Marlboros are displayed
prominently in the hand of an actress in a long, 30-second,
two-angle, center-screen shot. The placement is even weirder
considering that Bobby Kennedy's leadership helped finally push
cigarette ads off the airwaves for good over 35 years ago.
Real-world smoking rates have declined tremendously in the last 40
years, but smoking in the movies has mysteriously skyrocketed back
to levels not seen since the 1950s, when smoking was considered
alluring. Nothing happens by accident in the production of a
high-dollar motion picture, which leads us to believe we smell the
stench of product placement.
SOURCE: Variety Magazine, Monday, December 18, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5557
10. A CAUSE (-RELATED MARKETING) FOR JOY?
www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-watson/consumer-philanthropy-no_b_36261.html
"Large American nonprofits spend at least $7.6 billion per year on
marketing and public relations," according to a consulting firm's
analysis of U.S. tax data. "$7.6 billion annually in spending for
advertising, communications, public relations and branding ... is
not an insignificant business sector," writes Tom Watson. "Total
spending on public relations in the U.S. reached some $3.7 billion
last year. ... So while corporations are increasingly tying their
brands to nonprofit causes, the nonprofits themselves are -- in a
way -- increasingly competing with corporations for consumer
attention, and consumer dollars. Clearly, causes sell. ... According
to projects sponsorship consultancy IEG, Inc., cause-marketing
spending will rise 20.5% this year to $1.34 billion -- that means
cause-marketing sponsorships are now outpacing sports sponsorships."
While Watson sees this as good news for both nonprofits and
marketers, Huffington Post readers seem less enthusiastic. "Couldn't
that money be used to directly serve people?" one commenter asks.
"In the end, the corporate-allied nonprofits wear out their
welcome," warns another.
SOURCE: The Huffington Post, December 13, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5553
11. WITH ONLY 23 MONTHS LEFT, UNDECLARED CANDIDATES ARE POSITIONING
hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121306/overture.html
The 2008 U.S. presidential race is already taking shape. Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani "are lining up on opposite
sides of their home state's debate over a controversial nuclear
power plant," reports The Hill. Giuliani, "whose security firm works
for the plant's owners," supports the Indian Point plant's
re-licensing bid. Clinton has called for "an independent safety
assessment," while "three House Democrats and Gov.-elect Eliot
Spitzer (D-N.Y.) have called for Indian Point's closure," due to
radioactive leaks and the 9/11 Commission's finding that "al-Qaeda
members considered hitting Indian Point on their way to the World
Trade Center." But what about campaign advertising? Sen. John McCain
"will likely be lining up with Mark McKinnon, who headed the Bush
Maverick Media ad team," reports Advertising Age. Gov. Mitt Romney
will turn to Alex Castellanos of National Media, Inc., and Sen. Sam
Brownback will use Wilson Grand Communications. Clinton "looks to be
aligning with Mandy Grunwald," while Sen. Barack Obama "is expected
to go with David Axelrod's AKP Media & Message," and Sen. Joe Biden
will likely tap Joe Slade White.
SOURCE: The Hill, December 13, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5552
12. PLAYING HIGH-STAKES MEDIA GAMES IN CHINA
online.wsj.com/article/SB116613117276750595.html
As the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing approach, "the Chinese
government knows cameras and notebooks are just as likely to record
angry farmers protesting, practitioners of the banned Falun Gong
discipline clashing with police, or Hollywood stars campaigning for
Tibet's independence -- if reporters have the access." While China
has 31 journalists in jail -- more than any other country -- the
government has "pledged to temporarily relax limits on foreign
journalists" reporting on the Olympics. (China has declined to
extend the new freedoms to domestic journalists.) For a gentler
approach to media control, the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee
has put the PR firm Hill & Knowlton on retainer, while "Ogilvy
Public Relations Worldwide has been conducting training sessions for
local governments." "I think it is a part of the process of reform
for them," said the president of Ogilvy's China office. Sun Weide,
the Beijing Olympics Committee's "message man" who "works
extensively with Hill & Knowlton," stressed, "The Olympic charter
says very clearly that the Games are about sports, not politics."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), December 15, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5551
13. DRUG-ADDLED AGENCY FAILING ON OVERSIGHT
adage.com/article?article_id=113819
The U.S. Government Accountability Office "released a scathing
report on the way the Food and Drug Administration handles
direct-to-consumer prescription-drug advertising." The FDA "has just
six reviewers on staff" to "screen, review and track the 10,000
pieces of advertising generated by drug makers each year in what has
become a $4.5 billion-a-year industry." The FDA's response time for
problematic drug ads has ballooned, from an average of two weeks in
the years 1997 through 2001, to four months in 2002 to 2005, to
eight months in 2004 and 2005. Senator Herb Kohl, one of three
legislators who requested the GAO report, commented, "We need an FDA
capable of reviewing DTC ads and taking swift action when
necessary." For a rebuttal, Advertising Age quoted the head of the
Coalition for Healthcare Communication, who said, "Better government
oversight doesn't necessarily mean spending more money and adding
more staff." However, AdAge neglected to point out that the
"coalition" was formed by advertisers and publishing companies who
rely on advertising dollars.
SOURCE: Advertising Age, December 15, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5550
14. A LETTER WRITER'S IMAGINATION
www.bioethicsforum.org/Bruce-Pollock-GlaxoSmithKline-ghostwriter-FDA-advisory-committee-conflict-of-interest.asp
A doctor who featured in the PR plans of the drug company
GlaxoSmithKline has been appointed by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to a committee reviewing possible links between
anti-depressant drugs and suicidality. In December 2004, internal
GlaxoSmithKline documents revealed that Dr. Bruce Pollock had been
identified by the PR firm Ruder Finn (RF) as one of four
psychiatrists who could be approached to submit a letter to a
medical journal downplaying withdrawal symptoms experienced by those
who stopped taking the drug Paxil. Carl Elliot writes that a letter
by Pollock, similar to RF's draft, was published in the Journal of
Clinical Psychiatry. "There was no disclosure, no mention of
industry funding, no mention of 'editorial assistance,' and no
mention of Ruder Finn," Elliot wrote. In 2004, Pollock stated that
the letter was his work. However, he said that he "could imagine a
scenario where a representative from the makers of Paxil said,
'Could you make this point?'"
SOURCE: BioEthics, December 12, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5548
15. TACO BELL SEEKS PR ANTIDOTE TO E. COLI CASES
online.wsj.com/article/SB116596104973148101.html?mod=us_business_whats_news
Taco Bell has hired a safety expert, tested its produce, eliminated
green onions, changed suppliers, and hired a PR crisis-response
firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland. The firm's advice: publicize safety,
which the company has done in big market newspaper ads. Still, with
69 reported East Coast cases of E. coli and no smoking gun, the
restaurant chain faces what reporters Janet Adamy and Suzanne
Vranica call "a difficult marketing challenge: how to convince
consumers its food is safe when it doesn't know what has made people
sick." The last reported case occurred on December 2, 2006. The
outbreak has produced calls from lawmakers to establish new rules
and regulations to prevent food contamination. The brand has also
taken a shot from the Produce Marketing Association, which stated
that Taco Bell is not a member of an industry safety coalition that
investigated sources of contaminated California spinach that killed
three persons and sickened 200 nationwide in September.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), December 13, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit:
www.prwatch.org/node/5546
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