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and Knowlton PR multinational - interesting links 14 June 2004 'We’d represent Satan, if he paid,' unnamed Hill and Knowlton executive, 1991 Hill & Knowlton: A Corporate Profile CorporateWatch.org
Overview Market Share/Importance History Clients Who, Where, How much? Structure Locations Practice Structure Subsidiaries Lobbying/Influence Industry Groups Governmental Links Corporate Crimes Sidelining Human Rights Making and Breaking the Law Unsavoury Friends & Clients Big Tobacco Anti-Environmental PR The Gulf War Other Further Resources Book Websites Hill and Knowlton Strategic Communication seminar held in Maldives capital Male' in June 2004
reference number: 2004-322 A two-day Orientation Seminar on Strategic Communications, which was organised by the Strategic Communications Unit of the President’s Office, has concluded today. The Seminar was held at Nasandhura Palace Hotel. The objectives of the Seminar were to orient government departments to modern practices of mass communication, highlight the important role played by improved flows of public information in promoting good governance, increase the transparency and the accessibility of public information, and strengthen arrangements for media relations in the public sector. The seminar was conducted by consultants from Hill and Knowlton of the United Kingdom. Andrew Pharoah Managing Director, Marketing Hill & Knowlton UK Andrew has been with international Public Relations company Hill & Knowlton since 1995. As Head of Corporate Affairs Services he is responsible for the Agency's Public Affairs, Crisis and Change & Internal Communications Practices. He has considerable experience of helping organisations communicate around environmental issues and founded the Agency's environmental practice in 1999. Andrew advises a range on organisations on reputation issues. He has written on the subject in national newspapers and business journals. He has considerable political experience having worked for the Labour Party as a national official, adviser to an MEP and local authority Labour Group leader. He worked on both the 1992 and 1997 election campaigns at Labour HQ. He sits on the Management Committee of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and lives in Kent. Doing business in the age of accountability (950k PDF) Deeper and Wider 'Opinion' on Integrated Pollution Prevention Control by Andrew Pharoah, Director, Environment Practice, Hill and Knowlton UK Limited Hill and Knowlton UK official website homepage Hill and Knowlton's Corporate Reputation Watch Hill and Knowlton is one of the world 's largest and most influential corporations. As such, its virtually unregulated status, its longstanding connections to intelligence agencies, its role in shaping policy, and its close relationship to the Clinton administration deserve careful scrutiny. Public Relationships: Hill & Knowlton, Robert Gray, and the CIA by Johan Carlisle from the Spring 1993 issue of Covert Action Quarterly (Number44) The great Iraq War lie. The pictured girl told the world under tears that she saw how Saddam Hussein's soldiers took babies out of their incubators and let them die on the cold floor. The Lie Hill & Knowlton produced dozens of "video news releases" at a cost of well over half a million dollars which resulted in tens of millions of dollars worth of free air time as TV news directors broadcast them, while rarely (if ever) noting the Kuwaiti public relations firm as the source of the footage. PR makes the war grow fonder Tom Flocco WorldNetDaily.com, 1999 'We will build media events to create news (eg the October 4th public meeting, etc) place opinion/editorials and commentary pieces in various newspapers.....We feel it will be beneficial to use talk radio formats to advance the proposal, increase public input and raise visibility around media events. A related tactic that has been used successfully in the past is to draw our opponents weaker spokesmen into debates on the proposals with our stronger spokesmen' The Deals Accusing the PR industry of manipulating the truth is like criticizing sharks for eating meat, or snakes for poisoning their victims. They do what they do because it's in their nature. If God had intended otherwise, he wouldn't have given them fangs. How Hill & Knowlton helped sell smoking to the public By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton from WhatReallyHappened.com, 1995 Two days following its indictment in Tampa in October, 1988 as a result of the Operation C-Chase sting, BCCI did what many businesses in trouble do under such circumstances - it hired a public relations firm to help it reduce the bad publicity surrounding the indictment. The firm selected by BCCI was, consistent with BCCI's usual strategy, unusually well-connected politically: Hill and Knowlton, home to Republican Robert Gray and Democrat Frank Mankiewicz, and generally considered the most politically prominent public relations firm in Washington.(1) During the following two years, Hill and Knowlton provided various services to BCCI and to its secretly-held affiliate, First American Hill and Knowlton and BCCI's PR campaign Fas.org It turns out that Linda Lay's weepy interview with Lisa Meyers of NBC News this week was as phony as an Enron stock prospectus. The tears shed by Lay's latest trophy wife were scripted by public relations mavens from the powerhouse firm Hill and Knowlton. Hill and Knowlton Taught Her How to Cry - Tears of a Clown by Jeffrey St. Clair from Counterpunch.org It is difficult to imagine a more cynical approach to promoting the idea of a toxic waste dump in South Australia by the Howard Federal Government, than their choice of a Public Relations firm with the track record of Hill & Knowlton ... H&K's involvement with the American Central Intelligence Agency and their role in a deceitful propaganda exercise - (considered to have tipped the balance in favour of America pursuing the first Gulf war) - are public record. Howard Government betrays Australian interests for those of the American military/industrial combine Book Review The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations Best known for her role in the Hill & Knowlton PR firm's deceptive PR campaign to promote Operation Desert Storm on behalf of the government of Kuwait, has a long history of ties to work for government and corporate elites. Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado Disinfopedia.org There were many signs of an orchestrated campaign of harassment and intimidation against Judi and other environmentalists in the weeks before the bombing. The timber companies knowingly distributed fake Earth First! flyers and press releases advocating violence and sabotage to workers, community members and media in a move calculated to whip up fear and hatred against environmentalists. The Judi Bari Bombing Revisited: Big Timber, Public Relations and the FBI by Nicholas Wilson from Monitor.net The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) has hired the notorious multinational public relations firm Hill and Knowlton to provide "a whole range of communication services and media relations." Hill and Knowlton has been described as a "preeminent international spin machine." With 50 offices in 20 countries, affiliations with more than 70 associate companies, and more than 1,200 employees, it is one of the world's largest public relations firms. BC Salmon Farmers Hire Notorious Multinational PR Firm Hill and Knowlton IndymediaVictoria.org (Canada) |
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