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| − | '''Bob Burton''' is a freelance journalist based in Hobart, Australia. Bob is part-time editor of SourceWatch and has been a regular contributor to PR Watch. | + | '''Bob Burton''' is a freelance journalist based in Hobart, Australia. |
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| | With Nicky Hager he co-authored Secrets and Lies: the anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign (Craig Potton Publishing New Zealand 1999; Common Courage Press USA 2000) revealing a campaign by Shandwick New Zealand for a government-owned logging company, Timberlands. | | With Nicky Hager he co-authored Secrets and Lies: the anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign (Craig Potton Publishing New Zealand 1999; Common Courage Press USA 2000) revealing a campaign by Shandwick New Zealand for a government-owned logging company, Timberlands. |
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| | In 2007 Allen & Unwin published his book [[Inside Spin: The Dark Underbelly of the PR Industry]], which investigates the PR industry in Australia. | | In 2007 Allen & Unwin published his book [[Inside Spin: The Dark Underbelly of the PR Industry]], which investigates the PR industry in Australia. |
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| − | Hi Bob, Miocene here. Just noticed your note on the Monsanto article talk page. I'm a bit nervous with a reduction since there are ''so many negative aspects to Monsanto'' that people should know. Your the man on the site of course and it's your call but I'll try to briefly as I can explain the philosophy I've gone by to edit the article.
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| − | I've felt from the beginning that all relevant, reliably sourced information should be included so that people have a sort of 'one-stop' outlet of info about Monsanto (there are a lot of webpages that contain unreliable comments about the company that I've had to filter out). As you know, it's taken ''a lot of work'' to distill it bring it all together and make it flow, to put the pieces of the puzzle together as it were. I've often spent hours just tracking down one source. And as a whole I think it is a forceful and cogent argument that this is a company that simply cannot be trusted. I've been amazed at all they have done in their history. Monsanto uses many different avenues to dissiminate distorted information about their history and their products, and they have the ear of government and the MSM. A reliable counter weight, I've believed, is called for, one where people don't have to search all over the net for bits and peices. The main article's rank on SW shows that it is being referenced.
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| − | About the cut and pasting, I know that particular article has large sections that have been C&Ped. The reason why I used so much C&P was to preserve valuable comments and information that I've found often disappears from the net or simply gets buried and rarely found. Simply having a link that later becomes non-functionable (often the case) causes the loss of valuable data. So I've quoted. People can usually find an article by copying part of the quote snd searching for the article where it originated. Additionally, when using quotations I included those I felt stated a particular point succinctly, better than I could. Obviously I'm a believer in using many supporting sources.
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| − | About the use of simple linking and not the standard wiki format, I plead guilty. I realize that regulars here have been patient with me on this and appreciate it. I have done it in Wikipedia articles. The reason why I haven't changed over here is simply because of the ''sheer enormity of the task'' and my lack of time; I didn't want to start and not be able to finish. The time I can devote to the article has been diminishing steadily. I would love for it to be wikified and I kind of hoped that someone would come along and do it for me (though there is a risk in that). I also was sort of privately hoping that someone would come out with a program that could wikify links automatically :-). A lot of people could use something like that. One problem with it though is that I've so many links that it would make the pages way to huge unless they were added to a separate page, which is why I created the "Links to Articles Cited in Monsanto Pages" at the bottom of the articles, though I've not followed through with it.
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| − | Having said all that, I know that Sourcewatch has evolved over the years and has certain standards to meet. It's not my baby. So I'll leave it there. Regards. [[User:Miocene|Miocene]] 02:40, 23 September 2009 (EDT)
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Latest revision as of 00:18, 4 February 2010
Bob Burton is a freelance journalist based in Hobart, Australia.
With Nicky Hager he co-authored Secrets and Lies: the anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign (Craig Potton Publishing New Zealand 1999; Common Courage Press USA 2000) revealing a campaign by Shandwick New Zealand for a government-owned logging company, Timberlands.
In 2007 Allen & Unwin published his book Inside Spin: The Dark Underbelly of the PR Industry, which investigates the PR industry in Australia.
