TPMMuckraker Jack Gerard: December 2009
American Petroleum Institute
Oil Lobby Photo Altered To Present Racially Diverse Image
Zachary Roth | December 10, 2009, 4:05PM
It looks like the oil lobby's bamboozlement habit is so ingrained that it extends even to cosmetic touches.
The website Astrotruth.org notes that an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet given out at a forum last week appears to show oil and gas industry employees as a racially diverse group of people.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (40) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (6)Topics: American Petroleum Institute, Astroturf, Global Warming, Jack Gerard, Lobbyists
Media
Fineman: "I See Nothing Wrong" With Newsweek/Oil Lobby Panel
Zachary Roth | December 1, 2009, 3:59PM
Jack Gerard, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute
Last month, we told you about Newsweek's plan to team up with an oil-industry lobby group to host a panel discussion on global warming.
Several observers -- including Greenpeace, and a prominent professor of journalism ethics, expressed concern about the plan, in which Newsweek appeared to be giving a platform, for a price, to a key opponent of action on global warming. The panel will feature Jack Gerard, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, one of Newsweek's major advertisers. A spokesman for the magazine defended the arrangement as appropriate.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (5) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Global Warming, Howard Fineman, Jack Gerard, Lobbyists, Media, Oil
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