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[[Image:AAtrex Belt Buckle.png|250px|left]]<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/11277 Syngenta PR’s Weed-Killer Spin Machine: Investigating the Press and Shaping the "News" about Atrazine]</h3>'''By [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35302/beau-hodai Beau Hodai] and [[Lisa Graves]]'''
Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against [[Syngenta]], reveal how the global chemical company's PR team investigated the press and spent millions to spin news coverage and public perceptions in the face of growing concerns about potential health risks from the widely used weed-killer "[[atrazine]]." Two years ago, on March 2, 2010, ''Huffington Post Investigative Fund'' (''HuffPo'') reporter Danielle Ivory contacted Syngenta Corporation Director of Corporate Communications-North America Paul Minehart and asked, as reporters do, a few questions. Little did she know her questions to Syngenta would provoke the creation of a secret dossier on her. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/11277 here].
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