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Somebody Get Kai Ryssdal A Wall Street Journal Subscription
APM’s Marketplace, which the hardworking staff once contributed to and has always respected, ran this piece yesterday about BP’s ongoing attempt to depict itself as the victim of the Gulf Oil Spill. BP’s new recipe for settlement money: Shame a … Continue reading
BP = Better Press/Bitter Pills
After years of being a whipping boy for its Deepwater Horizon debacle, British petroleum giant BP is starting to get some love from the news media. Start with this piece in Bloomberg Businessweek headlined Spillapalooza: How BP Got Screwed in … Continue reading
BP = Bitter Petroleum
BP, the energy company that engulfed the Gulf in oil with its Deepwater Horizon meltdown in 2011, has begun a newly aggressive ad campaign after groveling to the American public for the past two years. Full-page ad in Wednesday’s New York … Continue reading
BP Puts Easy Street On Easy Street
BP has spent untold millions on its Make It Right advertising campaign, designed to convince the public that the oil giant is undoing the damage caused by its giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Exhibit ZZZ: This TV … Continue reading
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Tagged BP, Charlie Sheen, Easy Street, Gulf Coast, Make It Right, Rick Scali
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Is Hungary’s Prime Minister Slow As Molasses?
(Still in iPadland, so no links) The Associated Press reported on Saturday that Hungary’s red sludge reservoir is “very likely” to collapse, dumping another 90 million gallons of the goo into the Hungarian countryside – for a grand total of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Molasses Disaster, BP, Gulf goo-boo, Hungary, red sludge, Victor Orban
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BP=Brutish Petroleum (NYT), Bash President (WSJ)
Saturday was surely Bratish Petroleum day, what with Typhoid Tony Hayward gone a-yachting and all. Via the New York Times: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, … Continue reading
BP “Faking This Right”
BP’s “Making This Right” media campaign is a slow-motion train wreck, starting with anything featuring CEO Typhoid Tony Hayward, a man who truly puts the “damage” in damage control. (Can we agree that Hayward is the worst media spokesman since … Continue reading
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Tagged BP, Comical Ali, Gulf spill, Making This Right, Typhoid Tony Hayward
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Campaign Outsider Update Event™
Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, anti-Israel, Bogus Promises, Boston Globe, BP, Facetime, Mark Zuckerberg, Marty Peretz, New Republic, NPR, Update Alert
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BP Spin Patrol Update
After inexplicably sitting out Wednesday, BP’s full-page (read: expensive) damage control ads reappeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday. BP’s elaborate spinsite is here. Have a blast.
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