Retired Telco PR Exec Who Sent XYZ Corp. Letter To FCC Insists He Wrote It
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| Really? I'm really trying to give this guy
| the benefit of the doubt, but I can't come
| up with a single explanation for why he
| would write "XYZ Organization" when writing
| a letter himself from a group of people he
| supposedly represents. If you're the one
| writing the letter, on behalf of your
| supposed organization, why would you include
| "XYZ Organization"?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091026/1732156683.shtml
AT&T and astroturf: is "following the money" enough?
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| As the FCC prepares to lay down tougher net
| neutrality rules, hundreds of nonprofit
| groups
| are filing comments urging the agency to go
| slow on the policy. Is telco funding behind
| this push? Ars investigates the murky world
| of lobbying.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/the-anti-net-neutrality-movement-is-it-just-about-att-money.ars
Recent:
Guy Who Signed 'XYZ Corp.' Astroturf Letter... Worked As Telco
PR Person For Nearly 3 Decades?
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| So, remember last week when we wrote about
| how anti-net neutrality lobbyists from AT&T
| had crafted astroturf letters for various
| "special interest groups" to sign -- but
| someone forgot to remove the boilerplate
| "XYZ Organization" in the first paragraph?
| We also noted that there was little
| evidence that the group -- the Arkansas p
| Retired Seniors -- actually existed.
| However, Matt Cutts did a bit of digging
| and found that the name of the guy who
| signed the letter -- Bob Sells -- appears
| to have worked in PR for Southwestern Bell
| for 28 years (there appears to be only one
| Bob Sells or Robert Sells in Little Rock).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091024/1547326664.shtml
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