PUBLIC MEETING CORPORATE PR AND EXPENSIVE SPEECH After the Annual General Meeting of the Free Speech Committee Approx 8pm at St Stephens Anglican Church Hall, on the corner of Richmond Terrace and Docker Street, Richmond. Church St, Richmond Thursday May 4th 2000 Thursday May 4th 2000 When a chemical plant explodes, a young child dies from a disease contracted at a fast food outlet, or an industry wants to counter criticism from community groups, corporate 'spin doctors' are there. For the PR industry, bad news is good news. Based on the detailed case study of the campaign run by the world's fourth largest PR firm, Shandwick, for the NZ Government owned logging company, Timberlands, Burton will canvass issues such as the tactics used in corporate PR campaigns and the implications of the new corporate activism on democratic debate. Bob Burton is a Canberra based freelance journalist who specialises in writing on the public relations industry including articles for the US based investigative magazine, PR Watch, and last year co-authored a book with New Zealand writer, Nicky Hager. The book, Secrets and Lies: the anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign (Craig Potten Publishing, New Zealand) will be on sale afterwards. He is also the editor of Mining Monitor, a quarterly news-magazine on the mining industry in Australia published by the Sydney based non-government organisation, the Mineral Policy Institute. (Only financial member of the FSC can participate in the AGM, which starts at 7.30pm, but all are welcome to the discussion afterwards). (If you can't make it to the meeting, Secrets and Lies is being distributed in Australia through John Reed Book Distribution, 57 Sir Thomas Mitchell Drive, Davidson, NSW 2085 Australia Ph: 02 9939 3041Fax: 061 2 9453 4545. They only sell to bookshops but your local bookstore should be able to order in a copy). LL.VE -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink