PROPAGANDAWATCH

Washington Post: SOME FOLKS MIGHT SAY THAT'S AN INSULT
Howard Kurtz reports that the New York Times has spiked a "My Job"
column by Jeff Barge, a Manhattan public relations executive who
described planting stories in major newspapers and blasted the PR
industry as "a deceptive business" in which newspapers are fed
"quotes that are just plain fabricated by the PR people." According
to Times editor Judith Dobrzynski, Barge's piece was "too
self-promotional." (The mention of Barge appears in the bottom half
of Kurtz's column, under the subhead, "Unfit to Print.")


"Rumsfeld and company are also planning to wage a public relations war against Saddam Hussein, "the same way you try to wipe out his air defenses," Clarke says. She's working on having spokesmen available, around the clock and in the war zone, to respond to Iraq's propaganda blasts"