INC NEWS - Manufactured news from Duke PR

[Deborah Christie]

I noticed that watering - what's up with that?

Deb Christie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Schelp" <bwatu at yahoo.com>
To: <inc-list at DurhamINC.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: INC NEWS - Manufactured news from Duke PR


> Today's Herald-Sun article, "Duke Doing Its Part to
> Use Less Water," was prepared, quotes and all, by Duke
> News Service -- and simply regurgitated in this
> morning's paper. 
> 
> For whatever reason, Duke's manufactured news article
> did not talk about the university watering its
> AstroTurf field on East Campus -- while the rest of
> Durham is under tight water restrictions from the
> drought.
> 
> It's interesting that Duke writes newspaper articles
> for our local paper -- and then tries to pass it off
> as a highlight in its "daily summary of news media
> coverage about Duke" (see below).
> 
> Forget FEMA's fake press conferences, we have Duke
> PR's fake news articles right here in Durham.
> 
> hoping for better,
> John Schelp
> 
> ====
> 
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 
> From: eDuke News Service
> 
> Here's the latest issue of eDuke Media Clips -- your
> daily summary of news media coverage about Duke...
> 
> HEADLINES:
> Digging Into the History of the Humble Toothpick - NPR
> Scientists Examine Climate Change in Bible Tales - ATC
> Building Safer Bridges in Wake of I-35W Collapse -
> Science Friday
> Duke Doing Its Part to Use Less Water - Herald-Sun
> 
> ====
> 
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