Last night I mentioned the virtually impossible-to-believe Fox and Friends segment in which the News of the World was presented as another victim of a hacking episode, rather than as the perpetrator. If you haven't seen it yet, please: you owe it yourself to watch at least the first 90 seconds. Fox & Friends' Jaw-Dropping Whitewash of News of the World Scandal
www.newshounds.us
What are the chances that if it were MSNBC caught hacking and colluding with the Obama administration that the story wouldn't be a 24/7 controversy on Fox? But with News Corp. under scrutiny, Fox News thinks we should move on to more important news. Good luck with that!
Here's what I missed: I'm grateful to many readers for pointing out that the expert who discusses the hacking menace with Steve Doocy of Fox is indeed an expert -- in corporate public relations. He is Robert Dilenschneider (below), former head of Hill and Knowlton and now head of theDilenschneider Group, who recently was featured in an interview, "How to Manage a PR Disaster."
To Steve Doocy's credit, on first reference he introduces Dilenschneider as a PR expert. But through the rest of the conversation, the context and questioning are as if the guest's expertise were in hacking or data-security issues. Which is what I assumed on first viewing.
Thanks to many readers who, aware (as I was not) of Dilenschneider's eminence in the PR field, wrote to correct my impression. Many more wrote to ask whether his clients have included Murdoch or his businesses. I don't know; I've sent in a query today through the Dilenschneider Group's site; and will check with them on Monday.
UPDATE: Robert Dilenschneider wrote back on Sunday to say that in fact his company does not represent, and has not represented, Murdoch interests. Noted for the record (and with appreciation for his quick reply.)
Pending that answer, I will say it is tantalizing to read some highlights from the Firm's list of credits on its "Achievements" page. If you put yourself in assignment-editor mode, practically every one of these suggests a very interesting potential story on the "how the world works" theme. Really, stop and think for a minute about each of these achievements and what it implies -- even allowing for the understandable possibility that the Firm is talking up its influence over the outcomes it describes:>>The Firm arranged for USA Today editors to write a major feature story on one of America's leading personalities;
The Firm worked with and assisted the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in becoming a member of the board of a prestigious environmental group;
The Firm helped position an executive team as the best and brightest Internet visionaries who could foresee how the industry would evolve in years to come;
Continued to evaluate and critique quarterly earnings conference calls for a leading asset management firm client... Drafted and placed Op-Ed piece in a major media outlet under byline of the CEO;
The Firm enlisted consultant Victor Neufeld to counsel client and implement a program for a well-known charitable foundation, on a TV and other media public service campaign. Staged a private "Salon Dinner" for the foundation executives at the home of a renowned New York hostess attended by many prominent, philanthropic New Yorkers;
Working through a well known, market-oriented think tank, the Firm conceived and helped to implement a major Washington-based seminar designed to focus government and media attention on the need for tort reform;
The Firm arranged for a major financial institution to educate the editorial page editors of some of the nation's most influential newspapers on a critical social issue, which resulted in multiple articles on a subject in which there was a need for understanding by the public and selected legislators;
The Firm helped one of the largest private companies in the world to develop intelligence in Los Angeles and in other key U.S. markets, which enabled the organization to remove itself graciously from an embarrassing situation;
The Firm gave assistance to a major Asian political leader who wanted to publish a book in the U.S.;
The Firm interested Forbes magazine in undertaking a major article on a country's successful economic development program;
For a major service firm in Europe which required top-level meetings with key media, the Firm arranged for company executives to sit one-on-one with editors;
The Firm developed a corporate identity plan and strategies for subsidiaries for a global U.K.-based holding company:... <<
It's become conventional wisdom in the UK to say that this episode could lead to a fundamental rethinking of the interactions among press, politicians, lobbyists and interest groups, and even police. On what we know, the depth of the snarl and corruption in England far exceed any related effects in the United States. But it is possible to think that the role of Murdoch media, and their interactions with politicians and interest groups, will be fundamentally reconsidered here too.
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done
Or at least the most amazingly brazen I can think of at this moment.
Via Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, the simply unbelievable Fox and Friends segment below. It's about the News of the World hacking scandal.
To the good: they treat hacking as a problem and scandal. To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator. Watch, if you can stand to. They roll out some expert, Bob Dilenschneider, to say how hacking is a big problem. It's happened at the Pentagon. It's happened at Citibank. It's happened at the News of the World. When are we going to get serious about it?
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Citibank and the Pentagon were the hackees -- the objects of hacking, by criminals or spies. Murdoch's News of the World was the hacker -- the perpetrator, the criminal-or-spy counterpart.
I submit that this could not happen at any other news organization. Rather, it could not happen at a news organization. It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.
Update: As several readers have suggested, I should have pointed out the way the segment ends. Steve Doocy of Fox and his expert agree that it's terrible that the mainstream media are wasting so much time on this old-news London hacking story rather than paying attention to what really matters. Which is the segue to ... Casey Anthony.
www.newshounds.us
What are the chances that if it were MSNBC caught hacking and colluding with the Obama administration that the story wouldn't be a 24/7 controversy on Fox? But with News Corp. under scrutiny, Fox News thinks we should move on to more important news. Good luck with that!
What are the chances that if it were MSNBC caught hacking and colluding with the Obama administration that the story wouldn't be a 24/7 controversy on Fox? But with News Corp. under scrutiny, Fox News thinks we should move on to more important news. Good luck with that!
Here's what I missed: I'm grateful to many readers for pointing out that the expert who discusses the hacking menace with Steve Doocy of Fox is indeed an expert -- in corporate public relations. He is Robert Dilenschneider (below), former head of Hill and Knowlton and now head of theDilenschneider Group, who recently was featured in an interview, "How to Manage a PR Disaster."
To Steve Doocy's credit, on first reference he introduces Dilenschneider as a PR expert. But through the rest of the conversation, the context and questioning are as if the guest's expertise were in hacking or data-security issues. Which is what I assumed on first viewing.
Thanks to many readers who, aware (as I was not) of Dilenschneider's eminence in the PR field, wrote to correct my impression. Many more wrote to ask whether his clients have included Murdoch or his businesses. I don't know; I've sent in a query today through the Dilenschneider Group's site; and will check with them on Monday.
UPDATE: Robert Dilenschneider wrote back on Sunday to say that in fact his company does not represent, and has not represented, Murdoch interests. Noted for the record (and with appreciation for his quick reply.)
Pending that answer, I will say it is tantalizing to read some highlights from the Firm's list of credits on its "Achievements" page. If you put yourself in assignment-editor mode, practically every one of these suggests a very interesting potential story on the "how the world works" theme. Really, stop and think for a minute about each of these achievements and what it implies -- even allowing for the understandable possibility that the Firm is talking up its influence over the outcomes it describes:
To Steve Doocy's credit, on first reference he introduces Dilenschneider as a PR expert. But through the rest of the conversation, the context and questioning are as if the guest's expertise were in hacking or data-security issues. Which is what I assumed on first viewing. Thanks to many readers who, aware (as I was not) of Dilenschneider's eminence in the PR field, wrote to correct my impression. Many more wrote to ask whether his clients have included Murdoch or his businesses. I don't know; I've sent in a query today through the Dilenschneider Group's site; and will check with them on Monday.
UPDATE: Robert Dilenschneider wrote back on Sunday to say that in fact his company does not represent, and has not represented, Murdoch interests. Noted for the record (and with appreciation for his quick reply.)
>>The Firm arranged for USA Today editors to write a major feature story on one of America's leading personalities;It's become conventional wisdom in the UK to say that this episode could lead to a fundamental rethinking of the interactions among press, politicians, lobbyists and interest groups, and even police. On what we know, the depth of the snarl and corruption in England far exceed any related effects in the United States. But it is possible to think that the role of Murdoch media, and their interactions with politicians and interest groups, will be fundamentally reconsidered here too.
The Firm worked with and assisted the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in becoming a member of the board of a prestigious environmental group;
The Firm helped position an executive team as the best and brightest Internet visionaries who could foresee how the industry would evolve in years to come;
Continued to evaluate and critique quarterly earnings conference calls for a leading asset management firm client... Drafted and placed Op-Ed piece in a major media outlet under byline of the CEO;
The Firm enlisted consultant Victor Neufeld to counsel client and implement a program for a well-known charitable foundation, on a TV and other media public service campaign. Staged a private "Salon Dinner" for the foundation executives at the home of a renowned New York hostess attended by many prominent, philanthropic New Yorkers;
Working through a well known, market-oriented think tank, the Firm conceived and helped to implement a major Washington-based seminar designed to focus government and media attention on the need for tort reform;
The Firm arranged for a major financial institution to educate the editorial page editors of some of the nation's most influential newspapers on a critical social issue, which resulted in multiple articles on a subject in which there was a need for understanding by the public and selected legislators;
The Firm helped one of the largest private companies in the world to develop intelligence in Los Angeles and in other key U.S. markets, which enabled the organization to remove itself graciously from an embarrassing situation;
The Firm gave assistance to a major Asian political leader who wanted to publish a book in the U.S.;
The Firm interested Forbes magazine in undertaking a major article on a country's successful economic development program;
For a major service firm in Europe which required top-level meetings with key media, the Firm arranged for company executives to sit one-on-one with editors;
The Firm developed a corporate identity plan and strategies for subsidiaries for a global U.K.-based holding company:... <<
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done
Or at least the most amazingly brazen I can think of at this moment.
Via Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, the simply unbelievable Fox and Friends segment below. It's about the News of the World hacking scandal.
To the good: they treat hacking as a problem and scandal. To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator.
Via Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, the simply unbelievable Fox and Friends segment below. It's about the News of the World hacking scandal.
To the good: they treat hacking as a problem and scandal. To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator.
Watch, if you can stand to. They roll out some expert, Bob Dilenschneider, to say how hacking is a big problem. It's happened at the Pentagon. It's happened at Citibank. It's happened at the News of the World. When are we going to get serious about it?
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Citibank and the Pentagon were the hackees -- the objects of hacking, by criminals or spies. Murdoch's News of the World was the hacker -- the perpetrator, the criminal-or-spy counterpart.
I submit that this could not happen at any other news organization. Rather, it could not happen at a news organization. It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.
Update: As several readers have suggested, I should have pointed out the way the segment ends. Steve Doocy of Fox and his expert agree that it's terrible that the mainstream media are wasting so much time on this old-news London hacking story rather than paying attention to what really matters. Which is the segue to ... Casey Anthony.
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Citibank and the Pentagon were the hackees -- the objects of hacking, by criminals or spies. Murdoch's News of the World was the hacker -- the perpetrator, the criminal-or-spy counterpart.
I submit that this could not happen at any other news organization. Rather, it could not happen at a news organization. It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.
Update: As several readers have suggested, I should have pointed out the way the segment ends. Steve Doocy of Fox and his expert agree that it's terrible that the mainstream media are wasting so much time on this old-news London hacking story rather than paying attention to what really matters. Which is the segue to ... Casey Anthony.
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