22 May 2002
PR ATTACK DOG BITTEN/SPINNING THE WEB
PR company Berman & Co, amongst a host of corporate-funded low-life
activities, brand "biotech activists" as "terrorists", smear organics,
and denounce NGOs for receiving cash from "foundations"! Item 3 is an informative
and entertaining "dialogue" with their leader.
1. PR WATCH ISSUE ON "SPINNING THE WEB"
2. PR ATTACK DOG BERMAN DISHES IT OUT, BUT CAN'T TAKE IT
3. Response to Rick Berman - informative and entertaining
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1. PR Watch issue on "spinning the web" now available online
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q1/index.html
The First Quarter 2002 issue of PR Watch, which examines the ways that
PR firms and activists are using the Internet, is now available online
as a free download. Stories in this issue include "Spinning the Web," which
shows how PR firms view the web as a two-way street, using it themselves
to flog their causes and market clients' products, while simultaneously
PR pros are becoming increasingly alarmed at the growth of online activism.
In "Digital Marketing: Old Hacks Learn New Tricks," we look at ways that
PR pros and political campaigners are adapting old techniques for manipulating
the masses by replacing traditional junk mail with cyber-spam and web-driven
endorsements for hire.
More web links related to this story are available at:
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2002.html#1021953600
[for how Monsanto's been spinning the web:
https://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html]
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2. PR Attack dog Berman dishes it out, but can't take it
http://www.parentalfreedom.com/response2berman.htm
Tobacco PR lobbyist Rick Berman runs a lucrative business smearing
public interest groups through his industry-funded fronts such as ConsumerFreedom.com
and Activistcash.com. Berman can dish it out, but apparently he can't take
it, nor stand the truth. He is threatening to sue food safety activist
Jeff Nelson of VegSource for revealing that Berman lines his own pockets
from his "non-profit" enterprises. According to Nelson, "Berman claims
he wants to 'expose' funding sources of non-profit activist organizations.
But his enthusiasm for drawing aside the veil seems to wane when the focus
is turned on him. ... Berman was recently exposed for funneling millions
of corporate dollars donated to non-profit organizations he runs right
into his own bank accounts." Rather than back down, Nelson's group VegSource
is turning up the heat on Berman's scam.
SOURCE: VegSource Interactive News Release, May 20, 2002
More web links related to this story are available at:
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/May_2002.html#1021867201
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3. The article, "Response from VegSource to Rick Berman"...
...appears on the web at: http://www.parentalfreedom.com/response2berman.htm