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]

03:08 PM on 05/12/2009

Hmmm... Deja Vu.

Remember the tobacco industry countering the bad effects of smoking?

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

[SoCalNick]

10:00 AM on 05/12/2009

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]

03:21 AM on 05/12/2009

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

[FrankenPC]

03:09 PM on 05/12/2009

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

[geo1979]

08:41 PM on 05/11/2009

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]

06:45 PM on 05/11/2009

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

[blimie]

10:29 PM on 05/11/2009

They are the worst and the wealthiest.

[derrickhoyle]

04:33 PM on 05/11/2009

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

[peskyliberal]

02:18 AM on 05/12/2009

Nice!!

[RGKahn]

03:55 PM on 05/11/2009

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

[rf-hawaii]

06:59 PM on 05/11/2009

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

[up420oz]

03:13 PM on 05/11/2009

let gene know how you feel about him at:

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

[DrBillo1]

03:13 PM on 05/11/2009

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]

02:53 PM on 05/11/2009

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]

01:57 PM on 05/11/2009

Gene who?

[JnrNorman]

01:52 PM on 05/11/2009

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]

01:31 PM on 05/11/2009

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

[rf-hawaii]

07:00 PM on 05/11/2009

Just a few Lush Rimbaugh listeners.

[ModerateMouse]

12:43 PM on 05/11/2009

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]

12:05 PM on 05/11/2009

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.