Word: pr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rich’s verdict? Like most Broadway productions today, the administration’s PR machine is full of glitz, lights, and spectacle, but at its core, it’s shallow, empty, deceiving and plays, for an unwitting and brainless audience...
...media gets an especially bad whipping from Rich—not just the obvious suspect Fox News, but also other major networks and even Rich’s own employer—for becoming pawns in White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s PR game. Rich goes on to call the past five years, “an embarrassing era for the American news media.” He does, however, praise several journalists, including The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, who first broke the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, for continuing journalistic integrity...
...misguided war of choice that ended badly after a decade of pointless savagery; for the war's advocates on the right, Iraq recalled the great American triumph of rebuilding postwar Japan and Germany. Yes, it is hard to imagine that they were serious, but it wasn't simply PR, either - some of the policy documents used by the U.S. occupation administration in Baghdad were based on policies used in the Allied occupation of Germany...
...politically connected job applicants got special treatment by the Blagojevich administration. Illinois recently disclosed a $3 billion budget deficit for fiscal 2005 that was the largest in the nation. (To be fair, Blagojevich, 49, has improved on the $5 billion deficit that Ryan bequeathed to him.) And though the PR-savvy incumbent has bragged about being an "education governor" in announcing initiatives to expand preschool opportunities and toughen academic requirements for high school graduates, Illinois continues to rank near the bottom in state education spending...
...We’re not even sacrificing our liberty (and dignity) for substantive security improvements—it’s just a PR show. Both the General Accounting Office and the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that the TSA’s screening is no more secure than the private pre-9/11 practices. Is anyone surprised that confiscating lighters (30,000 a day), small pointy objects (those dangerous cuticle clippers), and not-so-sharp objects (frying pans, toy robots) does nothing...