What do asebestos, cigarettes and the Iraq war all have in common? Well they will all kill you, but additionally the PR Firm Hill and Knowlton is the common denominator.
Hill and Knowlton asbestos:
- Launch a public relations campaign disputing the evidence.
- Predict dire economic consequences, and ignore the cost benefits.
- Use non-peer reviewed scientific publications or industry-funded scientists who don't publish original peer-reviewed scientific work to support your point of view.
- Trumpet discredited scientific studies and myths supporting your point of view as scientific fact.
- Point to the substantial scientific uncertainty, and the certainty of economic loss if immediate action is taken.
Read more here:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1389
http://www.stockmarketawareness.com/wiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=5
Hill and Knowlton Iraq (mother of all clients) Excerpts:
Hill & Knowlton, then the world's largest PR firm, served as mastermind for the Kuwaiti campaign. Its activities alone would have constituted the largest foreign-funded campaign ever aimed at manipulating American public opinion. Documents filed with the US Department of Justice showed that 119 H&K executives in 12 offices across the US were overseeing the Kuwait account. The story of babies torn from their incubators was repeated over and over again. The more television people watched, the fewer facts they knew; and the less people knew in terms of basic facts, the more likely they were to back the Bush administration
Read more here:
http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html
And here are some of the more lucrative campaigns they have worked on. Just like a junkie needing a fix, they will work for anyone.
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=380
Minebuster, will you quite publishing this stuff? It's Christmas, my digestive system is fragile, and this type of info puts me into a perpetual state of nausea.
ReplyDeleteThere will be a special place in hell for the Hill and Knowlton scuzzball team: rooms full of asbestos, cigarette smoke, and unending loops of bad accordian music playing inbetween deafening explosions of dynamite....