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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.Austin who wrote (501356)	12/1/2003 7:26:59 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

You do probably get the idea,Right? I get hundreds of ideas every day. How about you? The key to success is to not get stuck in a rut, though it is OK to get stuck in groove. I really resent Yahoo News for being a propaganda tool. You'll recall how George Orwell wrote in 1984 about history constantly being revised to suit the needs of the State? Yahoo is wish-fulfillment for lying SOBs like Bush/Cheney 1984 who need to have history disappear in order for their newest lies to get traction. So, I'm sending another post with the full text of this "for posterity". Hope you don't mind..... *********** Re: git yer idea every time I tune into this channel. Someting else thats funny, I've always considered you riding with that bunch of educated fools. How perfectly inscrutable. Which, pray tell, 'bunch of educated fools' might you be referring to, sir?

To: D.Austin who wrote (501356)	12/1/2003 7:32:59 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

PR: PROPAGANDA LIES AT HEART OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Getting a Small Audience for Bad News biz.yahoo.com [[NOTE: The Bush Administration is the sneakiest totalitarian organization since the USSR or Hitler's Nazi Germany w/r/t letting out to bad news, or hiding the massive erosion of environment/labor protections. Every Friday night after hours, an endless stream of sneak attacks on America emanating from the EPA, DoL and other agencies streams into the media channels. Only to be forgotten by the media and never realized by the purpose-made ignorant American public. For more on George Bush's sneak attack on America see: Message 19546779 rollingstone.com ]] Sunday November 30, 3:29 pm ET By Martin Howell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Perhaps one of the most underrated skills of the corporate public relations industry is finding the way to ensure that bad news gets as small an audience as possible. Announce your contract loss, warn about poor earnings or disclose your CEO is quitting at about 6 p.m. New York time on a Friday and not only will much of Wall Street have headed out, but you will also probably get less attention from the media. After all, the Saturday business pages tend to have less room, there is no Wall Street Journal over the weekend and journalists are going to have more difficulty finding experts to explain how troubled the situation really is. There are several major holiday weeks during the year, such as those that contain the Independence Day holiday on July 4 or November's Thanksgiving, that create an even bigger information black hole. In those weeks many leading investors and analysts are more likely to be lying on a beach or stuffing a turkey than they are checking the news wires or combing through newspapers. Now, of course, subtlety is still important. Few are going to question the timing this Thanksgiving week of a series of announcements concerning the departure of high-powered executives at major companies, including the dismissal of Boeing Co. Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears. They were mainly made during Monday or Tuesday morning, when a respectable number of people remained at their desks. Anything that can be perceived as an attempt to avoid publicity tends to backfire, public relations experts said. "That kind of ploy can really break down confidence and trust," said Michael Morley, deputy chairman for PR firm Edelman. And issuing an announcement late at night that could wait until it got a bigger audience the following morning can breach the spirit if not the letter of good communications, he said. And some announcements late Tuesday night and the eve of Thanksgiving, on Wednesday, were certainly open to that kind of challenge. Take Pittsburgh-based mutual fund company Federated Investors Inc., which decided to tell the world at 8:52 p.m. New York time on Tuesday night what an internal investigation had dug up amid the widening mutual funds scandal. Federated said it had found that employees accepted after-hours orders from an investment adviser on 15 occasions, and was investigating another 100 occasions when they had incorrectly accepted orders after the stock market had closed. It also said that three had either quit or been fired, with one "mid-level" officer dismissed for deleting e-mails relevant to the probe. When asked why such an important announcement had been released so late on a day just as many people hit the road for the holiday, a Federated Investors spokeswoman said it would have been "remiss to wait any longer." She said the company had been criticized by fund research firm Morningstar for not telling investors quickly enough about the problems, and denied the timing was a deliberate attempt to reduce scrutiny. "We are under a lot of pressure to get information out as soon as possible," she said. Then there is the Israel-based but U.S.-listed medical device company Lumenis Ltd. It disclosed on Wednesday's eve of Thanksgiving, half an hour after the market had closed, that it had been told by the Nasdaq market on Tuesday it is tagged for delisting. Officials could not be immediately contacted to be asked why they had delayed the news by a day until many investors and traders had headed out. And Microlog, which provides automated refill services for pharmacies and other Web and phone services for the health industry, revealed at 6:43 p.m. on the same night that a government contract it had been previously awarded had now been taken away from it following a protest by a rival. Microlog officials couldn't be reached for comment on Friday. Also among those announcing bad news on Wednesday was auto parts supplier Visteon Corp., which said at 5:13 p.m. New York time that George Strickler had withdrawn from his appointment as its new chief financial officer for personal reasons that weren't disclosed. In this case, Visteon spokeswoman Kimberly Welch said the company made the announcement as soon as it could. She felt she had to get the disclosure out, despite the timing, because Strickler had been due to start in the job on Dec. 1. Of course, few have been as brazen as software maker Computer Associates International Inc. . when it warned close to midnight on July 3, 2000 about lower-than-expected profits. That invited derision from business columnists and analysts, and on July 5, 2000, CA's shares dropped 42 percent. Indeed, this week investors also eventually caught up. For example, on Friday in a shortened trading day, shares in Lumenis fell 15.22 percent, while those in Microlog slipped 11.43 percent and Visteon 6.88 percent. Federated Investors, though, gained 0.28 percent.