http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agigUkYgauE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Connor%E2%80%93Keogh_official_secrets_trial
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In November 2005, Civil servant David Keogh was charged with offences under section 3, and parliamentary researcher Leo O'Connor under section 5, of the Official Secrets Act 1989 in the United Kingdom. Both men were of Northampton, England.[1]
They appeared on November 29, 2005 in the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London. They were remanded on bail, to return to the court on January 10 for a committal hearing.
The charges against the pair relate to the alleged leak of a document containing what purports to be a discussion between Tony Blair and George W. Bush at one point. It is alleged this document shows that Blair had to dissuade Bush from bombing Al Jazeera in Qatar.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Jazeera
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Public relations campaign, 2005
In January 2005, the UK-based Media Bulletin reported that, in order to smoothe the way for negotiations with cable companies interested in carrying Al Jazeera English laguage programs, it was looking for a global PR company. According to the report, companies including Chime Communications, Publicis and Grayling had been shortlisted while major PR companies had withdrawn."Four or five agencies, including Burson-Marsteller and Hill & Knowlton, pulled out of the pitch process at very short notice," Al Jazeera international managing director Nigel Parsons told Media Bulletin.
In January 2005, the New York Times reported that intense pressure from the U.S. government had led the the Qatari government to accelerate plans to sell Al Jazeera to private buyers. "We have recently added new members to the Al Jazeera editorial board, and one of their tasks is to explore the best way to sell it ... We really have a headache, not just from the United States but from advertisers and from other countries as well," a Qatari government official who insisted on anonymity said.
In late February 2005, PR Week reported that former Hill & Knowlton PR executive Charlotte Dent had taken up the position of PR and marketing executive.[4]
Al Jazeera International has retained Brown Lloyd James (BLJ), a PR firm with offices in New York, Washington and London, as its agency of record. Set to launch in 2006, Al Jazeera International will be the 24-hour English-language news channel run by the Qatar-base company. According to PR Week, BLJ will promote the channel to industry trade publications and may eventually target news "consumers." BLJ received $37,500 for work in 2003 to help build political support in Washington for Iyad Allawi in his bid to become prime minister of Iraq. BLJ clients include the BBC, Disney and the Ford Foundation among others.[5]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Penn
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Mark J. Penn is worldwide CEO of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller (B-M), a position he has held since December 2005. [1] He is also the president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates (PSB), which he co-founded in 1975. Since December 2008 he has been a columnist for the Media & Marketing section of the Wall Street Journal.[2]
Penn was U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's top presidential campaign strategist until April 2008, when he left following a meeting with representative of the Colombian government to promote a free trade deal that Clinton said she opposed. A June 2007 biographical note stated that he "has worked with Mrs. Clinton for over six years, since he ran the polling and messaging for her successful election to the US Senate in 2000." [3]
However, Penn wasn't fired from the Clinton campaign. He and his polling firm "will continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign," reported the Wall Street Journal. [4] On April 7, "Penn took part on the campaign's morning message call ... as usual," reported Marc Ambinder on The Atlantic website. "This afternoon, he is also scheduled to be on a call with Clinton and other aides to begin to prepare for Saturday's presidential debate in Philadelphia." [5]
http://www.truthmove.org/content/advertising-public-relations/ (wake up Hollywood!) ...cal
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People themselves become advertisements. Literally, in the form of wearing and associating with certain brands, and figuratively through how they live their lives and give example to others.
The way this system is set up, we are raised to be nothing more than programmed consumers, taught to live as slaves for the system, toiling away according the system’s rules and values. It may seem natural that everyone around you works, dresses, and talks in a similar way–but this is an engineered reality meant to suppress your individuality and your access to the truth.
Advertising is the engine of the free market capitalist system–stamping out the most integral product–the consumer himself.
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