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In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyistsâ
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| In the official record of the historic
| House debate on overhauling health care,
| the speeches of many lawmakers echo with
| similarities. Often, that was no accident.
|
| Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers
| were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by
| Washington lobbyists working for Genentech,
| one of the worldâs largest biotechnology
| companies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15health.html?hp
The Lobbyists' Ability To Control The Message
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| But what is rather stunning about the NY
| Times story on how Genentech's talking
| points were mentioned (with multiple
| Congressional reps using the exact same
| language) is how unconcerned everyone is
| about it. The lobbyists wrote up talking
| points for both sides of the aisle. It
| wasn't about being in support or against
| the current healthcare bill, but just to
| get these Congressional Reps "on the
| record" in supporting key concepts, so that
| those same lobbyists can go back and point
| to such "bipartisan" support in the future,
| even if the Congressional reps themselves
| don't even know what they're talking about.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/1010356964.shtml
Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting
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| Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top
| medical schools Tuesday to ask what they
| are doing about professors who put their
| names on ghostwritten articles in medical
| journals â and why that practice was any
| different from plagiarism by students.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/business/18ghost.html?hp
Senate Exploring Med School Profs Putting Names On Ghostwritten Journal Articles In Favor Of Drugs
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091117/2246526983.shtml
Recent:
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
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