Gene Randall, Ex-Reporter, Hired By Chevron To Counter "60 Minutes" Report On Pollution

New York Times:

What did Chevron do when it learned that "60 Minutes" was preparing a potentially damaging report about oil company contamination of the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador? It hired a former journalist to produce a mirror image of the report, from the corporation's point of view.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[FrankenPC]

Hmmm... Deja Vu.

Remember the tobacco industry countering the bad effects of smoking?

I'm starting to hear a very large foundation cracking.

[SoCalNick]

I will wager that this EX Reporter became an EX Reporter because of the fact that he didn't have the INTEGRITY to NOT be for SALE.

LOL will anyone take this report seriously since they paid him to write it....YES.....at least 21% will.

[openhand]

And it is going to be called "2 minutes."

[FrankenPC]

...two minutes you will never be able to get back.

[geo1979]

IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL VIDEO OF 60 MINUTES GO TO THIS PAGE:

http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2009/0503-60-minutes-amazon-crude.html

Spread the real news. or CHEVRON will.

[jsgaetano]

Proving once again that when you buy gasoline, you are funding the worst people in the world.

[blimie]

They are the worst and the wealthiest.

[derrickhoyle]

Do people make biased "documentaries" to cover up wrongdoing from megacorporations? PEOPLE DO.

[peskyliberal]

Nice!!

[RGKahn]

I guess the key thought here is "ex-reporter" Wonder why he is an "ex-reporter"?

[rf-hawaii]

Perhaps this particular job of 'reporting' contributed to his 'ex' status.

[up420oz]

let gene know how you feel about him at:

http://www.generandall.com/contact.htm

[DrBillo1]

any one can sell their ethics for a price ,particularly media types, which leads to the fact you can not believe any of their biased or paid for opinions!!!

[lvdragonlady]

Actually what Chevron is doing is hiring the report to LIE to the American people.
Feel free to believe it, it you want, it is your right.

[deeppeace]

Gene who?

[JnrNorman]

Legalize Hemp!
we could be running our big-rigs on hemp diesel.
Chevron needs a 20% drop in busines.


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/05/Could-Monsanto-Be-Responsible-for-One-Indian-Farmers-Death-Every-Thirty-Minutes.aspx

[deepfreezevideo]

Does anyone still doubt that Big Oil doesn't have our best interests at heart?

[rf-hawaii]

Just a few Lush Rimbaugh listeners.

[ModerateMouse]

Chevron named one of its super tankers after Condoleezza Rice.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/05/MN222557.DTL

[SoleProp]

Chevron is a sponsor of Public Television's News Hour and runs an "ad" at the beginning of each program that implies, in the softest and most sensible of tones, that global warming and the responsible reduction of CO2 producing energy is the most important problem on the planet, implying Chevron itself is, if not the leader, then one of the earliest and staunchest of supporters in this most important mission to save the planet.

It turns my stomach every time I see it and I find myself hitting the mute button or changing channels for the minute or so it takes to run. I don't know if others find this "ad" so abhorrent, but for me they've carried their "masters of deflective public relations" to a complete and intellectually dishonest dead end.