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7. DEZENHALL TELLS PUBLISHERS: OPENNESS IS CENSORSHIP
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5672
  "A group of big scientific publishers has hired"
aggressive public relations executive Eric Dezenhall "to
take on the free-information movement," reports Jim Giles.
"Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription
charges, say that open-access journals and public databases
... threaten their livelihoods." Dezenhall "spoke to
employees from Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical
Society at a meeting arranged last July by the Association
of American Publishers." AAP subsequently hired his firm,
Dezenhall Resources. In emails obtained by Nature,
Dezenhall suggested the publishers claim that "public
access equals government censorship" and "equate
traditional publishing models with peer review." He
recommended they work with the Competitive Enterprise
Institute and gave his campaign fee as $300,000 to 500,000.
In another email, Wiley's director of corporate
communications said Dezenhall told the publishers they "had
acted too defensively" and "worried too much about making
precise statements."
SOURCE: Nature, January 24, 2007

9. A CO-OPERATIVE APPROACH TO FAKE NEWS
http://www.prwatch.org/node/5670
  When one satellite media tour (SMT) -- a sponsored,
canned TV "interview" -- promotes multiple products, it's
called a "co-op media tour." PR Week reports that "co-op
media tours are on the rise, and not just because they
spread the production costs among multiple brands." Michele
Wallace of the broadcast PR firm Medialink Worldwide says
that "numerous products centered around a theme ... can
provide a pretty strong news hook that may not be there
when you focus on one product." PR Week's tips include
making "sure your co-op tour doesn't appear too
commercialized." News Broadcast Network's Matthew Smith
says disclosure concerns haven't affected "the overall
interest in co-op tours," but adds that "stations want to
know if the spokesperson is being paid and by whom so they
can convey that to the audience." Whether TV stations
actually doprovide that disclosure to viewers is another
matter altogether.
SOURCE: PR Week (sub req'd), January 22, 2007

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