Better Late Than Never: Scott McClellan Publishes Tell-All Memoir
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Coal Front Group Feels the Heat
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Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) -- a coal and power industry front group -- is busy organizing opposition to America's Climate Security Act of 2007 proposed by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner.
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Healthcare Privacy Laws Quietly Assist Fundraising
Submitted by Anne Landman on
When a patient checks into a hospital or goes to see a doctor, they are typically handed a booklet called "Notice of Privacy Practices" and are asked to sign a document acknowledging that they received the information. Patients assume that these "privacy practices" are in place to protect their personal information and that doctors and hospitals will keep their information in strictest confidence.
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America Supports Its Friend's PR Firm
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PR firm Susan Davis International (SDI) has retained its contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's America Supports You campaign.
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Virginia Commonweath University's Secret Research for Philip Morris
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As CMD previously reported, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) operates a School of Medicine and a School of Public Health while enjoying a cozy relationship with the tobacco industry, especially cigarette maker
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Charlie Black Worked for the "Good" Dictators
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Charlie Black, the chief campaign adviser for Republican Party Presidential aspirant John McCain, has dismissed calls that he should resign due to his many years of lobbying work for BKSH & Associates, calling the calls "complete inside-the-beltway nonsense." MoveOn
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Media Hits by the Pentagon Pundits
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On the heels of last month's New York Times investigative report exposing the hidden relationship between media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries,
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Drug Companies: Marketing Machines Gone Awry
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New York Times reporter Melody Petersen, who covered the pharmaceutical industry for four years, has now published a book titled Our Daily Meds: How the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs.
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Nestling into the British Government
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
As CMD has reported previously, the infant formula industry in the U.S. is committed to making sure that women aren't, as they put it, made to feel guilty about not breast feeding. But it seems that formula producers are also looking to make inroads in Europe, where rates of breast feeding are far higher than in the U.S.
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Chart(er)ing a New Course for Invasion of Privacy
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the U.S., recently sent letters to some of its 2.7 million customers with details of a new initiative. "Charter is billing its new web tracking program as an 'enhancement' for customers' web surfing experience. ... The pilot program is set to begin next month.
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