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Selling the message: How PR firm helped place controversial Putin op-ed
CBS News ^ | Sept 14, 2013 | CBS News

Posted on 09/14/2013 5:21:19 PM PDT by Innovative

The column made its way into the newspaper with the help of leading American public relations firm Ketchum, which has offices across the globe and represents some of the world's most prominent brands, as well as the Russian Federation. The firm was responsible for getting Putin's editorial placed in the Times.

According to Justice Department filings, Ketchum was paid $1.9 million by the Russian government during the first six months of this year. It got another $3.7 million for public relations work for Gazprom, the oil and gas company controlled by the Kremlin

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gasputin; iran; israel; lebanon; maheralassad; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; potassiumfluoride; putin; putinoped; russia; sarin; sodiumfluoride; syria; thebrotherdidit; unitedkingdom; waronterror
Looks like they are expensive, but are earning their keep...
1 posted on 09/14/2013 5:21:20 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative
On the other hand CBS publishes Obama’s crap for free, and who is stupid again?
2 posted on 09/14/2013 5:31:07 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Innovative

Putin played the Americans like a fiddle.


3 posted on 09/14/2013 5:31:29 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Navy Patriot

I’ll feel insulted when we aren’t hitchhiking to the space station on Russian rockets.


4 posted on 09/14/2013 5:46:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Fido969

Looks like the Russians are getting their moneys worth out of this PR firm. They would sell out their citizenship for coin.


5 posted on 09/14/2013 5:47:17 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Innovative
It's good to see a second opinion in the New York Times "news" paper once in awhile.
6 posted on 09/14/2013 5:48:31 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: cripplecreek

Last month, Russia orbited an Israeli communications satellite in a routine shot. It’s business as usual between Russia and Israel.


7 posted on 09/14/2013 5:58:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Innovative

If the leader of Russia and his public-relations company can buy space on the New York Times op-ed page to attack America’s president, why can’t every other world leader do the same?

Why haven’t we heard from Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Un, and other critics of America opining from our Newspaper of Record about our president’s policy failures?

What is unique about Vladimir Putin?

Maybe Mr. Putin’s appearance in the New York Times has something to do with the fact a few weeks ago cyber-warfare specialists from the Syrian/Russian axis managed to hack into the New York Times’s web site, shutting down the newspaper’s Internet operation for a period of time — something that if repeated would destroy the newspaper’s ability to function.

The successful Syrian/Russian hacking operation ended as mysteriously as it had begun, but when the world woke up to read Vladimir Putin’s attack on Obama in the Obama administration’s major propaganda organ, the New York Times, it was clear something serious had happened.

The New York Times has been threatened with cyber attacks by a master of intimidation, the former director of Russia’s KBG, unless it agrees to become the propaganda organ of Vladimir Putin and Russia, beginning with last week’s running of Mr. Putin’s attack on Obama.

How long before Putin’s American approval rating exceeds that of Obama? Without the help of the New York Times, Obama would not be president. Let’s see what The Old Gray Lady can do for Vladimir Putin.


8 posted on 09/14/2013 6:32:07 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Navy Patriot

The Saudis are footing Obama. We get all the news the media is willing to sell us out for.


9 posted on 09/14/2013 6:33:33 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Innovative

Half the news on CBS is crap from PR companies in the employ of the Nazi Soros.

CBS is a joke.


10 posted on 09/14/2013 6:46:58 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Innovative; a fool in paradise
A naked attempt trying to discredit Putin. Lame and I don't mean lamé ! Not a word about the daily routine of MSM to accept PR trash from PR firms and from so-called "leakers" (nudge-nudge-wink-wink) on Capital Hill and from the White Hut. MSM is one big giant PR operation.


11 posted on 09/14/2013 6:54:53 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Innovative

When will See B.S. News do a story on their management’s ties to the Clown’s Regime?


12 posted on 09/14/2013 7:01:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Innovative
Presidents of ABC and CBS News Have Siblings Working at White House With Ties to Benghazi

CBS is in the tank for Obama. Always has been, always will be.

13 posted on 09/14/2013 7:03:52 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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