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	PR Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PR Watch is a quarterly newsletter whose stated mission is to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns.
		PR Watch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, is the creation of Center director John Stauber and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton.
		PR Watch and the Center for Media and Democracy reported receiving funding from a number of organizations founded by heirs of industrial and real estate fortunes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PR_Watch (405 words)

	Public relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PR historians say the first PR firm, the Publicity Bureau, was established in 1900 by former newspapermen, with Harvard University as its first client.
		PR practitioners, on the other hand, design releases to encourage as much "lifting" as possible, so in essence, the less professional a journalist is, the more successful the release is judged to be.
		According to PR Watch, it "specializes in blowing the lid off today's multi-billion dollar propaganda-for-hire industry, naming names and revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony 'grassroots' front groups, spy on citizens, and conspire with lobbyists and politicians to thwart democracy." [3].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_relations (3529 words)

	PR Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		[http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Smoking_as_a_civic_duty] PR Watch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, is the creation of Center director John Stauber and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-PR_Watch.html (658 words)

	Fashion Pr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The PR rating system was developed by AMD in the mid-1990s as a method of comparing their x86 processors to those of rival Intel.
		The letters PR stood for "Performance Rating", but many people make the mistake of thinking that it stood for "Pentium Rating", as the PR rating was often used to measure performance against Intel's Pentium processor.
		The first use of the PR rating was in 1996, when AMD used it to assert that their AMD 5x86 processor was as fast as a Pentium running at 75 MHz.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/31/fashion-pr.html (924 words)

	PR Watch -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PR Watch is a quarterly newsletter whose stated mission is to expose deceptive and misleading (A promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution) public relations campaigns.
		It frequently writes about anti-environmental PR campaigns but also covers issues ranging from (Click link for more info and facts about labor rights) labor rights to world affairs.
		In addition to archives of the newsletter, the PR Watch web site also offers daily reporting on public relations, (Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause) propaganda and (Click link for more info and facts about mass media) mass media spin in its Spin of the Day section.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/pr_watch1.htm (387 words)

	NEIS 9702 PR Watch
		NRC continues to place more importance on "relieving the regulatory burden" of nuclear utilities than on getting them to perform in a world-class manner, as is evidenced by their upcoming September public meeting near Chicago to use "industry initiatives" as substitutes for traditional regulatory oversight.
		Further, today's "watch list" meeting had a second announcement: that of reducing the number of annual "watch list" determinations from two to one, thus further removing poorly performing nuclear reactors from both public scrutiny and outcry.
		Until it adopts written, objective, and standardized "watch list" criteria, regulates more assertively, and stops cutting slack to recalcitrant and recidivistic utilities like ComEd, the NRC can never truly make the claim that the utilities have improved; and the public can never be sure that the regulators are truly regulating.
	www.neis.org /press/watch9702-pr.htm (448 words)

	PR Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PR Watch is a quarterly newsletter whose stated is to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns.
		In addition to archives of the newsletter PR Watch web site also offers daily on public relations propaganda and mass media spin in its Spin of the Day section.
		PR Watch and the Center for Media Democracy reported receiving funding from a number organizations founded by heirs of industrial and estate fortunes.
	www.freeglossary.com /PR_Watch (830 words)

	PR & Marketing Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now in its 61st year, PR News is the most trusted, executive level, reader-supported publication that helps enhance the business impact of PR.
		Written for corporate PR and agency professionals and the challenges they face, PR News is your blueprint for the strategies, tactics and insights you need to become an even more effective and successful communicator.
		PR News also presents seven virtual seminars each year on topics ranging from PR measurement to crisis management to analyst relations.
	www.prandmarketing.com /cgi/catalog/info?PRN (476 words)

	PR & Marketing Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		PR NEWS' annual "15 to Watch" issue is the industry's showcase of PR professionals age 35 and under who are clear stand-outs in the industry.
		PR NEWS, the leading industry publication serving communications executives worldwide, profiled the 15 young stars in its May 26 issue.
		PR NEWS is a publication of Potomac, Md.-based Access Intelligence LLC, also publisher of newsletters and magazines including Media Industry Newsletter, min's b2b, Satellite News, Cablefax Daily, Air Safety Week, Wireless Data News, Via Satellite magazine, Communications Technology and Film and Video.
	www.prandmarketing.com /pressrelease3.htm (266 words)

	PR Studies
		Caroline Wilson has started a blog for her PR students at the University of Central England (spotted by Tom Murphy).
		PR Week's feature on RSS is a good introduction to the subject.
		Even better, the souvenir retrospective on 21 years in the PR industry (pdf download) is a recommended read.
	prstudies.typepad.com /weblog (1150 words)

	Silicon Valley Watcher: PR Watch: No downturn down here as PR companies scramble for bodies
		And increasingly, many startups are looking for PR companies to present their story to the business press, rather than just the trade press, says Marianne O Conner, president of Sterling Communications, one of the top tier local PR agencies.
		Silicon Valley PR agencies are hiring, but the work is tough, and some agencies are developing a reputation for burning people out very quickly.
		I think there may be a rude awakening coming up for clients…and also one for those agencies that haven't taken care of their people during the past three very tough years.
	www.siliconvalleywatcher.com /mt/archives/2004/09/pr_watch_no_dow.html (422 words)

	Corporate Watch : The PR Industry : Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to marketing products, PR has been variously used to attract investments, influence legislation, raise companies' public profiles, put a positive spin on disasters, undermine citizens’ campaigns, gain public support for conducting warfare, and to change the public perception of repressive regimes.
		In a report commissioned by the Council of PR Firms, Economist Jaime de Pinies noted, "despite the budget cuts, it appears that public relations as a discipline is increasingly valued by the firms in this survey." By contrast advertising revenues have declined in the past decade.
		The practice of PR was pioneered and shaped by men such as Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays.
	www.corporatewatch.org /?lid=1570 (1928 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch > Ogilvy PR Worldwide appoints Handa as national ...
		OandM CEO India and South Asia John Goodman said, “Meenu is a terrific talent, and we are very glad to have her on board.
		PR is a core component of our 360 degree Brand Stewardship strategy, and we are very optimistic about it’s future growth in India.”
		They realise that the strategic role of PR is critical to their success,” said Handa.
	www.indiantelevision.com /mam/headlines/y2k5/sep/sepmam29.htm (213 words)

	America's Army Fights Back: The PR Plan for the Pentagon's 'Demonstration Village'
		Of these, 77 percent were judged "negative," 9 percent "balanced" and 14 percent "positive." A similar analysis by PR Watch of pieces published from January to mid-July 2005 that mention WHINSEC found a similar trend; 68 percent were negative, 23 percent neutral and 9 percent positive.
		SOA Watch's Christy Pardew told PR Watch that her organization had "a pretty big conversation" about whether to participate, but finally decided that "it was important for us to go and act as observers."
		Bonnie Docherty, a researcher in Human Rights Watch's Arms Division and the person who gave the lecture, told PR Watch that her presentation was based on "our battle damage assessment to Iraq that we have given in many forums.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0827-21.htm (1941 words)

	PR Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to archives of the newsletter, the PR Watch web site also offers daily reporting on public relations, propaganda and mass media spin in itsSpin of the Day section.
		PR Watch, a project of the Centerfor Media and Democracy, is the creation of Center director JohnStauber and PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton.
		PR Watch and the Center for Media and Democracy reported receiving funding from a number of organizations founded by heirs ofindustrial and real estate fortunes.
	www.therfcc.org /pr-watch-1883.html (418 words)

	PR Nation: Anti-Spin Activist John Stauber Penetrates America's Lie Machine
		When popular opinion threatens the interests of power, the PR industry is frequently consulted to placate the public in the interest of their clients.
		The spy was an employee of Burson-Monsteler, the world's largest PR firm, and she had been gathering information at the request of their client Eli Lilly.
		So the statement that we live in a society where we get both sides of the issues does a great job of trying to deflect and spin the reality, which is that the news media is doing a very lousy job of investigating and reporting on critical issues.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0901-05.htm (4590 words)

	Progressive, The: PR Watch. - periodical reviews
		"The ascendancy of the PR industry and the collapse of American participatory democracy are the same phenomenon," writes John Stauber, editor and publisher of PR Watch, a new quarterly publication out of Madison, Wisconsin.
		Packed with fascinating information--including a report on the activities of two undercover PR spies, a list of leading PR firms and their annual net fees, and sections from speeches and internal memos--PR Watch is fun to read and a helpful tool for activists who must dodge PR flacks.
		Stauber is looking to add to his stable of PR whistleblowers, and is happy to accept unsolicited memos, corporate strategy plans, and other documents.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n11_v57/ai_14233499 (261 words)

	#361 (10/28/93): PR Firms Undermine Democracy [corporate spying] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are now 170,000 PR employees in the U.S. (there are 40,000 more "flacks" than there are news reporters).
		PR WATCH reports that an MBD staff person, such as Kara Ziegler, "spends long hours on the phone falsely representing herself as 'a writer for Z Magazine' or a friend of a friend" gathering intelligence from and about unsuspecting activists.
		Ziegler by phone October 26 [(202) 429-1800]; she confirmed that she had read about herself and MBD in PR WATCH, then excused herself from the phone with a promise to call us back with comments on its accuracy, but we did not hear from her again.
	www.monitor.net /rachel/r361.html (1474 words)

	PR Watch on NoMoreScares.com
		This issue of PR Watch examines the industry-funded “sound science” movement of Steve Milloy, Dennis Avery, Elizabeth Whelan and others behind the NoMoreScares.com campaign.
		PR Watch is a publication of the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy
		Through the PR firm of Burson-Marsteller, Philip Morris also created the “National Smoker’s Alliance,” a supposedly independent organization of individual smokers which claimed that bans on smoking in public places infringed on basic American freedoms.
	ngin.tripod.com /168.htm (4936 words)

	PR Blog Watch: April 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Detroit PR pros John Bailey and May Zatina will share their tips on growing your network and the importance of maintaining valuable relationships.
		What the PR industry needs to do, in addition to Richard's steps above, is to work with the media to help consumers understand how the media works, how PR works and how the two intersect.
		PR practitioners must begin to realize that the illusion of control is just that, an illusion.
	prblogwatch.com /2005/04/index.html (10560 words)

	WATCH 9701 PR
		The NRC announced that it will again keep ComEd's Dresden 2 and 3 reactors on its "close watch list" for another six months because of continued poor performance, extending Dresden's record-holding inclusion on the list to 5-1/2 consecutive years.
		Since Dresden was also on the watch list from June, 1987, to December, 1988, these reactors have been on the list for 7 of the 25 years they have been in operation.
		How is it that NRC did not intervene in a more timely manner to keep plants from getting bad enough to qualify repeatedly for these 'watch lists'?" Kraft asked, referring to Dresden's repeat inclusion on the lists since 1987, and the subsequent addition over the years of the Zion, Quad Cities, and La Salle reactors.
	www.neis.org /press/watch9701-pr.htm (1137 words)

	SourceWatch - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The investigation by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald into the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity as a covert CIA agent has led to renewed attention on the activities of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
		Sourcewatch also includes specific case studies of deceptive PR campaigns, corporate PR campaigns, the activities of front groups, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts.
		We are also building profiles on public relations associations, specific criticisms of PR, common propaganda techniques, war propaganda and much, much more.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=SourceWatch (475 words)

	Human Rights Watch - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
		Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.
		The United States used Helsinki Watch for propaganda purposes, and to amplify the "human rights" contradictions in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Human_Rights_Watch (370 words)

	PR Watch Has Its Eyes Open -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From his home in Madison, Wisconsin, he founded PR Watch, a quarterly magazine that tracked the machinations of the hired guns who stealthily attempt to manage public perception and thereby shape public policy.
		Today, PR Watch has grown into an institution that, in addition to putting out the magazine, has an active Web presence (http://www.prwatch.org) and an annual budget of $200,000, which comes from grants, donations, subscriptions and profits from the four books Stauber and his colleague Sheldon Rampton have written.
		His book is being promoted by his Livingston Group colleague Lauri Fitz-Pegado, who is infamous for her work at Hill & Knowlton PR in 1990 coaching the Kuwaiti girl called “Nayirah” in her shocking but phony testimony to Congress that she’d seen Iraqi soldiers murdering Kuwaiti babies.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/pr_watch_has_its_eyes_open (661 words)

	Citizens Of Upright Moral Character - Comments
		NEW, IMPROVED MERCENARIES http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/06/22/security_firms_293m_deal_under_scrutiny/ "A private British firm that won a $293 million contract from the Pentagon for coordinating security in Iraq is headed by a retired British commando with a reputation for illicit arms deals in Africa and for commanding a murderous military unit in Northern Ireland," reports Charles M. Sennott.
		The Weekly Spin is compiled by staff and volunteers at PR Watch.
		PR Watch, Spin of the Day and the Weekly Spin are projects of the Center for Media & Democracy, a nonprofit organization that offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
	www.yopyop.com /citizens/comments.php?id=681_0_1_0_C (2620 words)

	Front groups - SourceWatch
		Thus, citizen smokers' rights groups and organizations of bartenders or restaurant workers working against smoking bans are sometimes characterized as front groups for the tobacco industry, but it is possible that some of these groups are self-initiated (although the tobacco industry has been known to use restaurant groups as fronts for its own interests).
		Edward Bernays, who is generally regarded as the "father of public relations," liked to tell people, "What I do is propaganda, and I just hope it's not impropaganda." In his later years, he became a vocal critic of some of the deceptive techniques used within the PR industry.
		"This was a pioneering move that is common today in the promotion of public causes--a prestigious sponsoring committee," notes PR industry historian Scott Cutlip.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Front_groups (753 words)

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