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• The Same Tired Talking Points Brought To You This Time by Senator Baucus and Dirty Energy Lobbyists

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 591
  Today, the Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing for the Boxer-Kerry bill. News such as this would typically be welcomed as necessary progress, as we are pushing for strong climate legislation to pass through the Senate before Copenhagen. However, one must take into consideration ulterior motives when ...
  3 days ago

• Michele Bachmann’s Astroturfing Teabaggers: A Rally for NO Solution

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  Bachmann urged her followers to "scare" members of Congress, saying, "Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving [...]
  1 week ago

• Net Neutrality Red Herrings, and How to Combat Them

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Rep. Ed Markey had a conference call with bloggers last Friday to talk about his legislation which would "establish overarching national broadband policy and ensures an open and consumer oriented Internet," or codify net neutrality. In addition : Markey stressed the importance of fighting "misinformation," ...
  1 week ago

• Blowing the Whistle on Astroturf

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 591
  Hey Bonner & Associates- here’s what astroturf looks like! Today’s Congressional hearing shone light on the fraudulent letters sent to three congressmen on behalf of Bonner & Associates just days before the vote on the House energy bill (ACES) this past summer.  In short, we investigated astroturfing. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is AT&T Behind Grassroots Groups That Are Opposed To Net Neutrality? [Astroturfing]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 779
  In the net neutrality debate, there are a surprising number of grassroots organizations (well, surprising to me at any rate) that have filed statements against the FCCs recent draft of rules. Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica just published an interesting article where he looks at some of these groups and tries to figure ...
  2 weeks ago

• Covert online campaigns: a primer

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 640
  Following last week’s Question Time, the BBC’s Have Your Say forum was red hot with sympathy for old Nick . This led to some soul searching in the media, and across the social sphere. To what extent can we say that this mass-protest; much of which condemned the ...
  2 weeks ago

• AT&T accused of astroturfing on net neutrality

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  An AT&T Inc. executive asked employees to post opposition to net neutrality rules being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on an FCC Web site using their personal e-mail addresses, prompting accusations of unfair advocacy by an opposing group.
  3 weeks ago

• AT&T employees asked to turn lobbyist over net neutrality

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 575
  An AT&T executive has asked the firm’s employees to contact the Federal Communication Commission and argue against its plans to enforce net neutrality. The request controversially suggests staff members to use personal e-mail addresses when making the arguments. The letter, from [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The New Bankruptcy, Astroturfing Climate Change

  
  Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum — Authority: 126
  Today a poll was released saying that 57% of Americans are in favor of the public option, up from 52% a month ago. It looks like the AstroTurf effect from the summer is wearing off. The Yes Men did it again pulling off a Press Conference where they claimed that the Chamber of Commerce had a change of heart and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Go Watch It: Rachel Maddow Takes on Americans for Prosperity

  
  MOMocrats — Authority: 458
  In August, I wrote about how astroturfing groups funded by big business and staffed by GOP political operatives and corporate lobbyists — like the Koch Industries-funded group Americans for Prosperity — are influencing the national debate on health care by helping to organize and promote Tea Party gatherings and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Big Oil Front Group Fights for Tar Sands

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 124
  The debate on energy and climate is littered with corporate front groups scare-mongering over action on climate change at the moment. On the blog we have recently talked about the American Petroleum Institute’s astroturf “ Energy Citizen ” campaign and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCE)’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• And he’s a fan of astroturfing!

  
  Blogging Blue — Authority: 544
  There’s been a lot of talk that the recent “Tea Party” movement, for all its talk of being a “grassroots movement,” is nothing more than an astroturf movement , in that the movement itself was conceived, created and/or funded by corporations, industry trade associations, political interests or public ...
  4 weeks ago

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