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U.S. Knew of Suspect’s Tie to Radical Cleric

"WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen...

Mark Lloyd A Civil Rights Leader Enrages Conservatives

Mark Lloyd a civil rights leader and FCC Diversity 'Czar' enrages conservatives with media reform. Right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is up in arms with Mark Lloyd's speech at a civil rights leadership...

Aspen Institute hosts FOCAS 2009

I'm sorry to be missing this event.  Plenty of good conversation going on. "he Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, with Senior Sponsorship from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, present FOCAS 2009 August 16-19 on the theme Of the Press: Models...

Internet Freedom Bill Introduced in the House

"New legislation would protect Net Neutrality once and for all !Date: July 31, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Today, Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of...

Amazon Defense Coalition’s PR Firm Questions Integrity of 60...

In my article I write about Hinton Communications previously slamming 60 Minutes for a report that unfairly characterized one of its clients.  Hinton Communications, now the pr firm for the Amazon Defense Coalition (ADC), uses the same news organization to aggressivly...

The softening up process

" With a guy in charge of communications who either did, or didn’t, depending on your political belief, preside over illegal phone tapping of private persons – has allowed this story to be published. What we see from that is the ever so slight nudging of public opinion...

Hinton Communications and Amazon Defense Coalition Lies

Ok, so now I have to clean up the lies that Karen Hinton, Amazon Defense Coalition’s PR counsel, posted in the comment section of several articles slamming the Amazon Defense Coalition and their case against Chevron. Karen Hinton made the following comments on a San...

Amazon Defense Coalition Smoke and Mirrors

As I’ve outlined in a previous post, Hinton Communications does an exceptional job of flooding the internet with phony press and news releases about the Amazon Defense Coalition.  In one of the best articles written on this phony organization titled, “Amazon...

Hinton Communications and Amazon Defense Coalition’s Phony News

This one is just too good to be true, but it is.  The title of the article reads as follows: Amazon Defense Coalition: Chevron produces Phony Online News Coverage to Spread Misinformation about Ecuador Disaster Guess what?  It is a phony...

Chevron Gone Wild or Amazon Defense Coalition Spin?

Hinton Communications distributed the following press release not to try to influence the media or Congress, but to mislead members of the public who are following the activities of the Amazon Defense Coalition.  Please click here to read the full press...

Is Common Sense Virginia’s Attack Campaign Succeeding?

First some background.  Common Sense Virginia is a PAC created solely for the purpose of attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell.   They receive most of their funding from the Democratic Governors Association, not from Virginia...

Mary Neal Requests Meeting with USDOJ - updated in comments

What happened to Larry Neal?"  Asking that question may get you followed, waylaid in neighborhood businesses while deprived of police assistance, stripped of your First Amendment rights to free speech and free...

Moldova's Twitter Revolution: an inside look

As the uprising in Moldova continues, protesters are using social networking tools such as Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook to coordinate their protests and decide what is their next move. It seems as if many in...

10 Canadian New Media Companies to Watch

That's a long list a companies and all with good hopes of great years to come in business in 2009 and 2010. I feel change will overflow and everyone will benefit from Obama being President."Posted by Rob Lewis Filed under Calgary , Edmonton , Montréal , Ottawa ,...

Telecoms oppose Net neutrality rules for stimulus money

" Representatives from Comcast, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon were in agreement at Thursday's conference, however, that more Net neutrality regulation would do more harm than good. "I still don't know that there's a problem out there that anyone is citing that compels...

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