Pretty scary article about an anti-smoking drug with lots of user comments in favor of the drug. I know that many, possibly all, are sincere anecdotes from people who have been helped. But how many are accounts from Pfizer or their PR firm, trying to spin/discredit it?
Are website user comments even something that companies/political groups really bother with?
Sure they do. Check out this Business Week piece on the field of "Reputation Management." I don't know if anyone can come up with numbers though. posted by Kirklander at 12:23 PM on March 30
The line between corporate-generated, think-tank generated, and lobbyist-generated PR and bona fide "news" has been in many cases systematically erased for a long time now. I don't know about blogs, but the definitive story of CIA infiltration of domestic media has yet to be written. For an idea of media manipulation at work, the Bush administration offers the Jeff Gannon story, the Valerie Plame affair and the WMD PR coup that led us into Iraq. Consider also the legacy of Operation Mockingbird, the infiltration of foreign media, the origins of UPI, the possible spook-backgrounds of Bob Woodward and Judith Miller. Here's more: How Spooks Took Over the News, the CIA and journalism, and more here as well. posted by ornate insect at 1:06 PM on March 30 [1 favorite]
I heard a long time ago, that the U.S. Government spends more money on proliferating dis-information than spending money on the truth. (Not sure how credible that statement is) posted by captainsohler at 3:29 PM on March 30
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posted by Kirklander at 12:23 PM on March 30