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Arab Media Forum 2011 Tackles Region's Unfolding Revolts

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Egypt, Bloggers, Dubai Press Club, Wikileaks, Arab Journalism Awards, Social Media, Bridges Media Consulting, Apco Worldwide, Al Akhbar, Dubai, Aljazeera, Agence France-Presse, Twitter, Libya, Jacques Charmelot, Arab Media Forum, Traditional Media, Journalists, Arab Media Forum 2011, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

"Why haven't all the bloggers who were jailed in Egypt over the years or elsewhere been recognized?"

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The Front Group Hall of Shame Gets a New Inductee

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Congress, Smoking, Freedomworks, Michael Moore, Ahip, Wwwsourcewatchorg, Sicko, Porter-Novelli, Apco Worldwide, Business News
Wendell Potter

The creation of the Choice and Competition Coalition is coming straight from the corporate lobbyist playbook. And it undoubtedly will have some big money behind it.

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Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan's Curtain

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Nfib, Health Insurers, Medicare for All, NBC/WSJ Poll, Medicaid Cuts, Ahip, Chamber of Commerce, Medicare Advantage, Medicare, Medicaid, Apco Worldwide, US Chamber of Commerce, Paul Ryan, Nbc, Ryan Budget, Ryan Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget, Health Care Reform, Paul Ryan Medicare, Politics News
Wendell Potter

Democrats who think Ryan has guaranteed the GOP's demise by proposing to shred Medicare will soon be rudely disabused of that notion. Insurers have shown time and again they can persuade Americans to act against their best interests.

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'How Everybody Exists' Doesn't Have to Be

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobbying, Lobbyists, Public Opinion, Democracy, Sicko, Health Insurance, Michael Moore, Corporate America, Corporations, Ethics, Public Relations, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Spin, Universal Health Care, Apco Worldwide, Corporate Greed, Health Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

The surprising gem in an Inquirer piece was that APCO VP Bill Pierce agreed with me. He acknowledged that interest-funded pressure groups "are all over the place" in Washington. "That's how everybody exists here," Pierce said.

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SBA Loses Legal Battle Over Crisis Management PR Contract

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Contracts, Fraud, Diversion, Myth, Small Business, Abuse, Apco Worldwide, Federal Court, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, Sba, American Small Business League, Miscoding, Lawsuit, Large Firms, Freedom of Information Act, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The proposal to combine the SBA with the Commerce Department is just the latest attempt by the government to cover up billions of dollars in abuse while dismantling small business contracting programs.

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My Apologies to Michael Moore and the Health Insurance Industry

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Apco Worldwide, Michael Moore, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore Sicko, Books News
Wendell Potter

I need to apologize to Moore for the role I played in the insurance industry's public relations attack campaign again him and Sicko, which was about the increasingly unfair and dysfunctional U.S. health care system.

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How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Sicko, Cigna, Apco Worldwide, Michael Moore, Apco, Politics News
Michael Moore

APCO, the health insurance industry's PR firm who said it wants to push me off a cliff, has now taken on its biggest challenge yet: leading a giant, multimillion dollar effort to help Wall Street "earn back the trust of the American people."

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They Said They Would Push Me "Off a Cliff"

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wendell Potter, Cigna, Apco Worldwide, Michael Moore, Business News
Michael Moore

Yesterday, on Democracy Now, the former Vice President of CIGNA, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies, revealed that CIGNA met with the other big health insurers to hatch a plan to "push" yours truly "off a cliff."

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Financial Services Roundtable, Big Banks Begin Effort to Improve Image, Set 'Record Straight'

bloomberg.com | Julianna Goldman and Robert Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Ddb, Apco Worldwide, Financial Crisis, Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research, Omnicom Group Inc., Scott Talbott, Financial Services Roundtable, Wall Street, Citigroup, Business News

March 24 (Bloomberg) -- One of Wall Street's main lobbying groups is starting an image-improvement campaign aimed at showing the financial industry as...

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Tank Warfare: Alaska PR Initiative Targets Polar Bears

Martin Luz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apco, Esapience, Esa, Roll Call, Ken Silverstein, Pr, Afganistan, Aig, The Economist, Climate Change, Hank Greenberg, Spin, Polar Bears, Think Tank, Alaska, Iraq, Apco Worldwide, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Martin Luz

The latest entrant in the "sponsored-ideas" derby is the state of Alaska, which announced a $1.5 million, 2-year program to kill polar bears... er... sorry, the stated goal of RFP No. 505 is to:

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