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==Blog astroturf==
"[W]ell-paid and well-connected firms"—including [[NetVocates]]: "Blog Intelligence and Advocacy Service (BIAS)" [http://www.netvocates.com/] and the [[Rendon Group]]—are "orchestrating professional astroturf comments on weblogs", Teresa Nielsen Hayden of the ''Making Light'' Blog [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007935.html#007935 wrote] August 30, 2006.
"If you want to get some idea of the resources being devoted to falsifying and suppressing legitimate public discourse, consider that paid professionals are being hired to post agenda-pushing comments on midrange blogs," Hayden [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007935.html#007935 wrote].
===Blog Tracks===
===On [[net neutrality]]===
Cynthia Brumfeld Brumfield [http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001580do_broadband_providers_employ_blog_comment_shills.php wrote] May 21, 2006, at ''IP Democracy'' that for the past several months, she had noticed that "a group of commenters to blog posts related to network neutrality tend to say the same things over and over again" and that "a core group of the same commenters" "show up time and again saying the same things (although not always phrased the same way) repeatedly" "typically [saying] in one form or another: we don’t need network neutrality regulations because there is no evidence of abuse and in any event government intervention in the Internet marketplace will mess everything up."
"Now, along comes another commenter," Brumfeld Brumfield wrote, called 'sagecast', who [http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001358markey_attacks_barton_defends_telecom_legislation.php wrote] March 30, 2006, in the comments section: "this group is an organized tag-team of industry representatives, semi-sock puppets if you will, who troll the Internet making such comments to give the false impression of broad-based support of industry-friendly positions. ... By tag-teaming the blogs, this small handful of individuals gives the false impression of broad popular support for an industry-friendly position."
==Telecom astroturf==
== External Links ==
*"United Church of Christ Stooge for the Baby Bells?" UCCTruths.com. Note: link to dated article not available.
*[[Monsanto]]: [http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html "Monsanto's Web of Deceit"]posted by Norfolk Genetic Information Network, undatedvarious dates.
*[[John Stauber]] and [[Sheldon Rampton]], ''[http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry]'' (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995).
*Sharon Beder, ''[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/PR.html Public Relations' Role in Manufacturing Artificial Grass Roots Coalitions]'', Public Relations Quarterly 43(2), Summer 98, pp. 21-3.
*Tim Craig, [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0309-04.htm "Community Leaders Decry Lobby Firm's Fax,"] ''Baltimore Sun'', March 9, 2002.
*[[George Monbiot]], [http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit4.html "The Fake Persuaders. Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet,"] ''The Guardian'' (UK) (posted by Norfolk Genetic Information Network), May 14, 2002.
*"[http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/06_02_03_pressrelease.html Gray Panther Ads Targeting WorldCom Funded by IDI]," Corporate Crime Reporter, June 2, 2003.
*Christopher Stern, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14490-2003Jun19?language=printer WorldCom Opponents In Sync]," ''Washington Post'', June 19, 2003.
*M.E. Cowan, [http://failureisimpossible.com/dosomething/sod.htm "Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf,"] ''Failure Is Impossible'': provides articles dated "from 2004 or earlier" and a list of identical "letters to the editor" generated by a Republican website that were published in newspapers around the United States.
*Teresa Nielson Nielsen Hayden, [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005850.html "Common Fraud,"] ''Making Light'' Blog, December 3, 2004.
*Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801118.html "For Activist Constituents, Click Here,"] ''Washington Post'', September 19, 2005.
*Mark G. Levey, [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/28/112052/928 "A Job You Might Not Want to Apply For, Unless You're Jack Abramoff,"] ''Daily Kos'', February 28, 2006.
*''[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2477 "Lobbying: Astroturf reform dead?"], ''SpinWatch'', March 2, 2006.*Thomas Nephew, [http://pages.prodigy.net/thomasn528/blog/2006_03_05_newsarcv.html#114153532961875410 "CENTCOM pays a visit,"] ''newsrack'' Blog, March 5, 2006.
*John Eggerton, "[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6319706.html?display=Breaking%20News Groups Target 'Astroturf' Telecom Lobbies]", ''Broadcasting & Cable'', March 28, 2006.
*Cynthia Brumfield, [http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/001358markey_attacks_barton_defends_telecom_legislation.php "Markey Attacks, Barton Defends, Telecom Legislation,"] ''IP Democracy'', March 30, 2006.
*[http://www.cybersoc.com/2006/05/behind_netvocat.html "behind netvocates (and its link to customscoop),"] ''Cybersoc.com'', May 31, 2006.
*UncleBeal, [http://wordsnotfists.blogspot.com/2006/06/another-inconvenient-truth-netvocates.html "Another Inconvenient Truth - NetVocates,"] ''Words, Not Fists'' Blogspot, June 9, 2006.
*Teresa Nielson Nielsen Hayden, [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006420.html "More astroturf,"] ''Making Light'' Blog, June 10, 2006.
*Tyler Slack, [http://www.utahadventurevideos.com/blog/archives/2006/06/10/has-netvocates-visited-your-blog-recently/ "Has NetVocates Visited Your Blog Recently?"] ''Desultory Thoughts'', June 10, 2006.
*Peter Rost, [http://peterrost.blogspot.com/2006/06/am-i-crazy-paranoid.html "Am I Crazy Paranoid ...?"] ''peterrostDr.blogspot.comPeter Rost''Blogspot, June 12, 2006.
*DBK, [http://frogsdong.blogspot.com/2006/06/strange-days-indeed-shadowy-propoganda.html "Strange Days Indeed: Shadowy Propoganda-for-Pay Group Targeting Web Logs,"] ''Blanton's and Ashton's'' Blog, June 13, 2006.
*Amanda Marcotte, [http://pandagon.net/2006/06/13/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-feeding-trolls/ "One More Reason to Be Wary of Feeding Trolls,"] ''Pandagon'', June 13, 2006.
*Ann Bartow, [http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=910 "On 'Astroturfing' and Paid Shills,"] ''Feminist Law Professors'' Blog, August 27, 2006.
*Ann Bartow, [http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=919 "Just Because You Are Paranoid....,"] ''Feminist Law Professors'' Blog, August 29, 2006.
*Teresa Nielsen Hayden, [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007935.html#007935 "Further instances of astroturf in blogs,"] ''Making Light'' Blog, August 30, 2006.
*Teresa Nielsen Hayden, [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007947.html#007947 "Another update on astroturf,"] ''Making Light'' Blog, September 1, 2006.
[[Category:Public relations/Astroturf]][[Category:Ethics]]
