HILL OF BEANS AND KNOWLTONS MORE SPECTACULAR MEDIA CAMPAIGNS

If you aren't sure who Hill of Beans and Knowlton are, they are the PR guru's who replaced Daniher.

Big stupid and insane projects takes big spin, takes big PR, and takes big money.  Like the American government OR someone with more money, like Seth Klarman.

Here are some hi-lites/low-lites from Hill of Beans and Knowlton's campaigns:

Excerpts from Mother of All Wars
"If and when a shooting war starts, reporters will begin to wonder why American soldiers are dying for oil-rich sheiks," warned Hal Steward, a retired army PR official. "The US military had better get cracking to come up with a public relations plan that will supply the answers the public can accept."71http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html
Steward needn't have worried. A PR plan was already in place, paid for almost entirely by the "oil-rich sheiks" themselves.
The man running Hill & Knowlton's Washington office was Craig Fuller, one of Bush's closest friends and inside political advisors. The news media never bothered to examine Fuller's role until after the war had ended, but if America's editors had read the PR trade press, they might have noticed this announcement, published in O'Dwyer's PR Services before the fighting began: "Craig L. Fuller, chief of staff to Bush when he was vice-president, has been on the Kuwaiti account at Hill & Knowlton since the first day. For more click here: http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html

Hill & Knowlton's Maldives Role Still Generating Heat
H&K's lead consultant on the account, Tim Fallon, is saying nothing. It appears that Fallon, who posted a blog in October 2006 defending his work for the regime, blogs no more.
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2008/01/6882/hill-knowltons-maldives-role-still-generating-heat

Risky Business: The World According to Hill & Knowlton
"Risk communication is about two things," Buckmaster said (Chairman and General Manager Thomas Buckmaster) "scaring people into action and trying to reassure them into inaction." Although corporate crisis management focuses on "reassuring into inaction," he noted noted that PR firms are sometimes hired to inflame rather than downplay fears.  http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1997Q1/risky.html

Corporate Think Tank Dives into Water Policy
"I have, for many years now, believed that water is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world in the 21st century," Whitman stated, in a speech at WPI's inaugural meeting.  The Water Policy Institute's chair is former New Jersey governor and Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman. After leaving the EPA, Whitman founded her own public relations firm. The Whitman Strategy Group's clients include FMC Corporation, a chemical and pesticide manufacturer; the oil company Chevron's Environmental Management Company; and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), an industry lobby group. Since 2006, Whitman has co-chaired the NEI-funded and Hill & Knowlton-managed Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a pro-nuclear front group.  http://www.prwatch.org/news/2009/04/8347/corporate-think-tank-dives-water-policy


Hill & Knowlton Uses Environmentalists to Peddle Coppertone
The thinning ozone layer leaves us exposed to increasing Ultra Violet (UV) radiation, increasing skin cancer deaths, cataracts and damaged immune systems. Bad news? Not if you are the drug transnational Schering-Plough, or its PR firm, Hill & Knowlton.
Hill & Knowlton's Nina Oligino has persuaded some national environmental groups to add their names to the "Partner" letterhead, including Friends of the Earth, National Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club.  http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1994Q3/coppertone.html

Way more, click here:
http://www.prwatch.org/search/node/Knowlton

And thanks to rabble.ca for the lead on this.