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		<title>Links to News Reports on ACORN Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harold Meyerson, &#8220;For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din,&#8221; Washington Post, September 23, 2009.
University of Northern Iowa, &#8220;Profs: Why ACORN was in the news in &#8216;07-&#8217;08, and what the media got wrong,&#8221; Romenesko, September 23, 2009.
Alicia Shepard, &#8220;The ACORN Videos: Did NPR Ignore Them?&#8221; NPR, September 23, 2009.
Michael Calderone, &#8220;Study: Media&#8217;s been wrong on ACORN,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A study by Christopher R. Martin, Ph.D. and Peter Dreier, Ph.D.
Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how &#8220;opinion entrepreneurs&#8221; (primarily business and conservative groups and individuals) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Wal-Mart PR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been mounting criticism of Wal-Mart in recent years.  Critics charge they kill off small local businesses, they contribute to urban sprawl, they squeeze suppliers into bankruptcy, they discriminate against female employees, they hire illegal aliens and fire union organizers.

	Last January, Wal-Mart fought back with a multi-million-dollar massive public relations blitz, including full-page advertisements in more than 100 newspapers, a new round of television commercials featuring happy blue-vested Wal-Mart workers, and a web site called walmartfacts.com (as an antidote to critical sites such as <a href="http://www.walmartwatch.com"> walmartwatch.com</a>).]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens Fight for Real News</title>
		<link>http://mediacrit.com/citizens-fight-for-real-news</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truly fake news comes in the form of VNRs â€“ video news releases â€“ that are created by special interest groups like corporations and politicized government agencies and then played on TV news.  For example, as the <I>New York Times</I> reported in March, more than 20 federal agencies have used taxpayer money to produce hundreds of VNRs promoting Bush administration policies. Such VNRs are most dangerous when they come to our television screens without local television editorial oversight or attribution.]]></description>
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		<title>Fake News and Yo-Yos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first four years of George W. Bushâ€™s administration, $254 million in taxpayerâ€™s dollars was spent on public relations contracts.  They didnâ€™t invent government propaganda, but have taken it to a new level, spending almost double the previous four years under Clinton.  A good part of this was for VNRs, sometimes with public relations officials posing as reporters, emanating from at least 20 different agencies, promoting the Bush agenda on issues such as drug enforcement, the Medicare prescription drug law, post-invasion Iraq, military prison guard training, and agriculture programs.]]></description>
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