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Faceless Coal
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| The Adfero Group states on its website that it specialises in developing
| strategies for clients to "influence policymakers and shape legislation or
| regulations at the federal, state and local levels". An environmental group
| that watchdogs the coal industry, Appalachian Voices, notes that "all of
| the âFACESâ of coal are actually just istockphotos. They couldnât even get
| real photos of their supporters."
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8529
BPA industry fights back
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| Public relations blitz takes cue from tobacco companies' past tactics
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http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/54195297.html
Malawi's child tobacco labourers suffer nicotine poisoning
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| Multinational tobacco companies are coming under pressure today for their
| policy of buying tobacco from farms that exploit children.
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| An international study has revealed that children working in Malawi's tobacco
| fields are absorbing up a huge amount of nicotine, the equivalent to smoking
| 50 cigarettes a day.
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| Some of these children are less than five and they work for less than 2 cents
| an hour in oppressive conditions.
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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2667295.htm
Recent:
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
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| [...]
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| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
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| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
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| [...]
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| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media â which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them tooâis a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
| for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
Related:
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| In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing
| when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing
| disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its
| antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans
| for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from
| deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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