[Media-watch] FW: The Weekly Spin, Wednesday, March 12, 2003
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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
1. Disinfomania!
2. Bill Kristol Is Going To Get His War
3. US-Funded Radio Sawa Big Hit In Middle East
4. No More French Fries for Congress
5. Secretive U.S. "Information" Office Back
6. Pentagon Ready For Primetime
7. Smart-mobbing the War
8. Bayer's Headache
9. News Conference "Scripted," Reporters Silenced
10. New Warnings from FBI Whistleblower
11. American Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story
12. Canadian Military Brass Get PR Lessons
13. The Green Side Of The Pentagon
14. Airlines Go From Friendly Skies to A Flying Police State
15. Korea Web Paper Strikes a Blow for Media Democracy
16. Have A Coke And See Your Dentist
17. Man Arrested for Wearing Peace T-shirt
18. A Question of Coverage
19. Luntz Memo Helps To Greenwash Republicans
20. Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed
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1. DISINFOMANIA!
http://www.disinfopedia.org
Yesterday the PR Watch staff launched a new website - an "open
source" encyclopedia of propaganda that we have dubbed the
"Disinfopedia." The Disinfopedia lets people like you contribute
your knowledge about PR front groups and propaganda to a growing,
ever-improving database that will serve as a resource for citizens
and journalists. Users have already added 19 new articles to the
Disinfopedia. We have also received a number of questions that we
have tried to answer in the Disinfopedia's FAQ section, including:
* What if someone tries to insert false information into the
Disinfopedia itself?
* How do I edit a page?
* Who came up with that cool Disinfopedia logo? The
Disinfopedia is a self-conscious experiment in alternative forms of
information-gathering and publication. We hope you like what you
see, and that you'll become one of our regular contributors!
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2. BILL KRISTOL IS GOING TO GET HIS WAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/arts/11WEEK.html?ex=1048439418&ei=1&en=b24
ee1e4a387726d
"Five years ago ... The Weekly Standard made the broad, seemingly
preposterous assertion that America was entitled and even compelled
to engineer regime change in Iraq. But under the current
administration, driven by 9/11, that contention has become
conventional wisdom. ... 'I am impressed by their success,' said
Senator John McCain, whom The Weekly Standard supported for the
presidency. ... In June 1997 [founding editor William Kristol]
formed the Project for a New American Century, which issued papers
supporting essentially unilateralist efforts to police the world.
... Signers at the time included many people who are now in a
position of power, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, along with ... Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle ... . ... The Weekly
Standard's willingness to domesticate and Americanize the globe, at
gunpoint when necessary, gives a shiver of delight to most
conservatives... . ... The man who runs News Corporation [which
owns The Weekly Standard], Rupert Murdoch, has seen his Fox News
morph from a running joke to a runaway success, and he is ...
pleased to match its mass with the class - and growing cachet - of
The Weekly Standard."
SOURCE: New York Times, March 11, 2003
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3. US-FUNDED RADIO SAWA BIG HIT IN MIDDLE EAST
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/propa11_20030311.htm
Within six months of going on the air Radio Sawa -- Sawa is the
Arabic word for "coming together" -- has more listeners than BBC
and local stations in Jordan according to the Broadcasting Board of
Governors (BBG), the U.S. government agency that oversees Radio
Sawa and the Voice of America. The station broadcasts 24
hours-a-day from seven transmitters throughout the Middle East and
features a mix of Arabic and Western pop music with news headlines
every half-hour. According to the Free Press, BBG Chairman Kenneth
Tomlinson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week
that Radio Sawa "may be the star of our efforts in the war on
terrorism." He added that: "In an age when Arab boycotts of
American products are widespread, a U.S. government-run radio
station almost overnight has become the most popular voice of its
kind in major portions of the Middle East, including Baghdad." But
"the BBG rejects charges that Radio Sawa is a propaganda tool," the
Free Press writes.
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press, March 11, 2003
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4. NO MORE FRENCH FRIES FOR CONGRESS
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/
News outlets are gleefully reporting the renaming of French Fries
in Congressional cafeterias, now to be called "Freedom Fries."
(Parents are no doubt telling their kids, "Behave and get those
Freedom Fries out of your nose or we're leaving right now!") The TV
media are running with this story as part of the cheerleading
buildup for a US attack on Iraq. No word yet whether European
governments will retaliate by renaming All-American Hot Dogs as
"Dogs of War."
SOURCE: CNN, March 11, 2003
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5. SECRETIVE U.S. "INFORMATION" OFFICE BACK
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-propaganda-patrol,0,6619656
.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
"A Cold War-era office with a shadowy name and a colorful history
of exposing Soviet deceptions is back in business, this time
watching Iraq," reports Connie Cass. "The
Counter-Disinformation/Misinformation Team's moniker is more
impressive than its budget. It's a crew of two toiling in anonymity
at the State Department, writing reports they are prohibited by law
from disseminating to the U.S. public. The operation has challenged
some fantastic claims over the years -- a U.S. military lab
invented AIDS, rich Americans kidnapped foreign babies for their
organs, the CIA plotted to kill Pope John Paul II. Since the office
reopened in October, it's been responding to Iraqi claims about
America, which tend to be more plausible and sometimes remain in
dispute." The White House Office of Global Communication has
produced a report, titled "Apparatus of Lies: Saddam's
Disinformation and Propaganda."
SOURCE: Associated Press, March 10, 2003
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6. PENTAGON READY FOR PRIMETIME
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-03-09-media-war-usat_x.htm
U.S. Military public affairs officers at Central Command in Qatar
are putting the finishing touches on their media center. USA Today
reports that a $250,000 briefing stage has been shipped in from
Chicago at a cost of $47,000. "Painted battleship-gray and backed
by a 38-foot repeating world map, the set has five plasma screens,
two rear screen projectors, two podiums and five digital clocks,
including one giving Baghdad time. Behind the set is a
state-of-the-art control room that requires at least three service
members to operate," USA Today writes. "It's much cheaper than one
bomb, and it can do a lot more. It is the face of the military,"
George Allison, who designed the Defense Department set, told USA
Today. The Pentagon is expecting 1000 journalists at its daily
briefings in Qatar. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that
"images of that war are likely to follow not long afterward at the
local multiplex - all shot in the latest high-definition digital
video. ... From the military point of view, the project 'is
intended to maintain a strong connection with the American public
...' "
SOURCE: USA Today, March 9, 2003
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7. SMART-MOBBING THE WAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09ANTIWAR.html?pagewanted=print
Largely unnoticed by the press, "hacktivists" like Eli Pariser have
used the Internet to create what George Packer calls "an
instantaneous movement. ... During the past three months it has
gathered the numbers that took three years to build during Vietnam.
It may be the fastest-growing protest movement in American history.
... Internet democracy allows citizens to find one another
directly, without phone trees or meetings of chapter organizations,
and it amplifies their voices in the electronic storms or 'smart
mobs' (masses summoned electronically) that it seems able to
generate in a few hours. With cellphones and instant messaging, the
time frame of protest might soon be the nanosecond."
SOURCE: New York Times, March 9, 2003
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8. BAYER'S HEADACHE
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20030307_1457.html
A $100 million lawsuit against Bayer Corp. has yielded e-mails and
internal documents that suggest the drug company let marketing and
PR concerns trump safety, disregarding disturbing research on the
cholesterol drug Baycol before it was pulled off the market because
of dozens of deaths. "There have been some deaths related to
Baycol. ... So much for keeping this quiet," said one E-mail.
Another message wondered, "How will marketing spin this?" Other
documents show that Bayer executives worried about studying
possible side effects of the drug because any results would have to
be reported to the FDA.
SOURCE: Associated Press, March 7, 2003
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9. NEWS CONFERENCE "SCRIPTED," REPORTERS SILENCED
http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20030307.html
Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter and author of
a regular Commondreams.org feature "Ari & I: White House
Briefings," was at George W. Bush's first primetime news conference
in over a year and a half. He says, "Last night's [press
conference] might have been the most controlled Presidential news
conference in recent memory. Even the President admitted during the
press conference that 'this is a scripted' press conference. The
President had a list of 17 reporters who he was going to call on.
He didn't take any questions from reporters raising their hands.
And he refused to call on Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House
press corps, who traditionally asks the first question." According
to White House communications director Dan Bartlett, the Bush
administration rarely uses news conferences, because "if you have a
message you're trying to deliver, a news conference can go in a
different direction." However, "In this case, we know what the
questions are going to be, and those are the ones we want to
answer."
SOURCE: Institute for Public Accuracy, March 7, 2003; Democracy Now! March
7, 2003
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10. NEW WARNINGS FROM FBI WHISTLEBLOWER
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3738192.html
Minneapolis FBI agent Colleen Rowley, who last year exposed the
agency's mishandling of warning signs prior to September 11, has
written a new letter to FBI director Robert Mueller, warning that
"the diversion of attention from al-Qaeda to our government's plan
to invade Iraq ... will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential
increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S., both at home and
abroad. ... It is altogether likely that you will find yourself a
helpless bystander to a rash of 9-11s. The bottom line is this: We
should be deluding neither ourselves nor the American people that
there is any way the FBI ... will be able to stem the flood of
terrorism that will likely head our way in the wake of an attack on
Iraq." Rowley also alludes to "immense pressures you face as you
try to keep the FBI intact and functioning amid persistent calls
for drastic restructuring. You have made it clear that the FBI is
perilously close to being divided up and is depending almost solely
upon the good graces of Attorney General Ashcroft and President
Bush for its continued existence." She hints broadly that recent
FBI statements about al-Qaeda and its alleged link to Iraq are
"largely the product of a desire to gain favor with the
administration," and states that government detentions of more than
1,000 illegal alients following 9/11 were done "for what seem to be
essentially PR purposes."
SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune, March 6, 2003
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11. AMERICAN MEDIA DODGING U.N. SURVEILLANCE STORY
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/030306.html
The London Observer on March 2 reported a leaked U.S. National
Security Agency memorandum written by a top official calling for
"aggressive surveillance" of UN Security Council delegations. The
story received much media attention worldwide, but the US media has
shown little interest in the story. Media Beat columnist Normon
Solomon writes, "Several days after the 'embarrassing disclosure,'
not a word about it had appeared in America's supposed paper of
record. The New York Times -- the single most influential media
outlet in the United States -- still had not printed anything about
the story. How could that be? 'Well, it's not that we haven't been
interested,' New York Times deputy foreign editor Alison Smale said
on the evening of March 5, nearly 96 hours after the Observer broke
the story. 'We could get no confirmation or comment' on the memo
from U.S. officials."
SOURCE: Media Best, March 6, 2003
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12. CANADIAN MILITARY BRASS GET PR LESSONS
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/story.asp?id=EC644982-9C50-426C-9
668-635F7D7BF197
"Canada's military has launched a major effort to help senior
officers express empathy during tragedies, avoid nervousness, craft
sound bites, avoid gaffes and 'deflect' questions," CanWest News
Service's Peter O'Neil reports. A critic of the effort says that
the federal government should focus on policy and performance
rather than spin, suggesting that the military believes "that we're
going to be the author of a lot of bad news over the next while, or
associated with a lot of bad news and, therefore, we better figure
out how to spin it."
SOURCE: Ottawa Citizen, March 6, 2003
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13. THE GREEN SIDE OF THE PENTAGON
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03062003_bt100-03.html
In an effort to "preserve Iraq's oil for the Iraqi people," the
Pentagon plans to prevent the destruction of Iraq's oil fields by
"securing" them as quickly as possible. "In light of past acts of
eco-terrorism by the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Department of
Defense has developed plans to extinguish oil well fires and to
assess damage to oil facilities that might occur in Iraq in the
event of hostilities," a DoD release states. Reports exist,
however, that U.S. troops and allies were responsible for the oil
field fires and spills during the first Gulf War. The New
Internationalist reported in October 1992, "When, on 24 January
1991, Baghdad Radio announced that the US-led forces had bombed two
oil tankers in Kuwait harbour, releasing large quantities of oil,
the US military was quick to dismiss these claims as entirely
false. Two days later they announced that Iraqi forces had opened
the valves on several pipelines, allowing oil to spill directly
into the Gulf. Cries of outrage and accusations of 'environmental
terrorism' filled the press. Pictures of oil-soaked, panic-stricken
cormorants splashed across the front page of every newspaper.
Several days afterwards - in a minor briefing note - the US
admitted that the slick caused by the Iraqis had not yet hit land.
The dying birds were in fact being killed by the slick from earlier
attacks on installations - including the US bombing of the
tankers."
SOURCE: Department of Defense, March 6, 2003
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14. AIRLINES GO FROM FRIENDLY SKIES TO A FLYING POLICE STATE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/business/06FLY.html?ex=1047998130&ei=1&en=
6f4589920d7a6a7c
"The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply
objecting to government plans for a new airline passenger screening
program .... . The proposed program ... would involve electronic
checking of the credit records and criminal histories, along with
checking whether the passenger is on watch lists of suspected
terrorists. The screening would be done by the federal
Transportation Security Administration. ... Based on the results,
each traveler would be assigned a risk level. Those deemed to pose
a danger would be barred from flights. The critics worry how the
information about other passengers - whose risk rating will appear
in encrypted form on boarding passes - will be used and protected
from abuse. ... The program has so angered some passengers that a
movement is brewing on the Internet for a boycott of Delta if it
carries out the test of the system, known as CAPPS II, for Computer
Assisted Passenger Prescreening System."
SOURCE: New York Times, March 6, 2003
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15. KOREA WEB PAPER STRIKES A BLOW FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/international/asia/06SEOU.html?ex=10479983
93&ei=1&en=ab381a219b4f0db9
"For years, people will be debating what made [South Korea] go from
conservative to liberal, from gerontocracy to youth culture and
from staunchly pro-American to a deeply ambivalent ally - all
seemingly overnight. ... But for many observers, the most important
agent of change has been the Internet. ... In the last year, as the
elections were approaching, more and more people were getting their
information and political analysis from spunky news services on the
Internet instead of from the country's overwhelmingly conservative
newspapers. Most influential by far has been a feisty
three-year-old startup with the unusual name of OhmyNews. ... 'The
professional news culture has eroded our journalism,' [founder Oh
Yeon Ho] said, 'and I have always wanted to revitalize it. Since I
had no money, I decided to use the Internet, which has made this
guerrilla strategy possible. ... Pat Robertson and I are very
different in temperament and ideology, but we are very similar in
strategy,' said Mr. Oh ... . 'They are very right-wing and wanted
to overthrow what they saw as a liberal media establishment. I
wanted to overthrow a right-wing media establishment, and I learned
a lot from them.' "
SOURCE: New York Times, March 6, 2003
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16. HAVE A COKE AND SEE YOUR DENTIST
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=5770
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's has a new partnership
with soft-drink giant Coca-Cola. The $1-million deal involves a
research grant to the academy to "support important clinical, basic
and behavioral research" and "create public and professional
educational programs, based on science, that promote improved
dental health for children." The AAPD told Reuters that Coca-Cola
"will have no say-so" into the specifics of that research. The
non-profit group Center for Science in the Public Interest,
however, has criticized AAPD's partnership with the world's largest
soft drink manufacture. "Regardless of what the money is used for,"
CSPI writes, "the grant will make the AAPD a captive of Coca-Cola,
making it extremely unlikely that the AAPD will take positions
antagonistic to the company, like opposing soft-drink machines in
schools, or supporting labeling of the added-sugar content of
foods."
SOURCE: CorpWatch, March 6, 2003
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17. MAN ARRESTED FOR WEARING PEACE T-SHIRT
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/sns-ap-mall-activists0305mar05,0,575
0151.story?coll=ny-statenews-headlines
A man was arrested and charged with trespassing in a mall in
Albany, New York after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said
"Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."
SOURCE: Newsday, March 5, 2003
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18. A QUESTION OF COVERAGE
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7350
More than two dozen journalism school deans and professors,
independent editors, journalists and authors have sent an open
letter to major media editors, criticizing media coverage of Iraq
and warning that "this is no time for relying solely on official
sources and their supporters." Signers of the letter include:
retired New York Times columnist Tom Wicker; former New York Times
reporter William Serrin; Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the Graduate
School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley;
author Studs Terkel; independent journalist and filmmaker Barbara
Koeppell; and author Ralph Nader.
SOURCE: TomPaine.com, March 3, 2003
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19. LUNTZ MEMO HELPS TO GREENWASH REPUBLICANS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/politics/02ENVI.html?ex=1047881012&ei=1&en
=711d229fc74ee095
"Over the last six months, the Republican Party has subtly
refocused its message on the environment, an issue that a party
strategist [Frank Luntz] called 'the single biggest vulnerability
for the Republicans and especially for George Bush' in a memorandum
encouraging the new approach. The Republicans, as the memorandum
advised them, have softened their language to appeal to suburban
voters, speaking out for protecting national parks and forests,
advocating investment in environment technologies and shifting
emphasis to the future rather than the present. ... National
environmental groups say the shift has blunted the edge of
Republican attacks. 'They are not playing defense anymore,' said
Kim Haddow, a consultant for the Sierra Club who has helped counter
some Republican advertisements. 'It's like a tennis game. The ball
is back in our court, and we need to spend time and energy
educating voters.' "
SOURCE: New York Times, March 2, 2003
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20. STAR WITNESS ON IRAQ SAID WEAPONS WERE DESTROYED
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.html
"On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of
the Iraq crisis," FAIR writes. "In a revelation that 'raises
questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction]
stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist,' the magazine's issue
dated March 3 reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected
from the regime in 1995 told U.N. inspectors that Iraq had
destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons
and banned missiles, as Iraq claims." The CIA denied the Newsweek
story. FAIR reports a copy of the complete transcript of Gen.
Hussein Kamel's debriefing by International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) and the U.N. inspections team known as UNSCOM was obtained
by Glen Rangwala, "the Cambridge University analyst who in early
February revealed that Tony Blair's 'intelligence dossier' was
plagiarized from a student thesis."
SOURCE: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, February 27, 2003
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