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Full story: FIR Book Review: Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, by Wendell Potter. FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew reviews Deadly Spin by former CIGNA PR executive Wendell Potter. According to Publisher’s Weekly, Potter exposes the PR pro’s propaganda tricks – fake grass-roots organizations, bogus scientific […]
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Full story: Starting the sixth year of FIR with a thank you
Today at about 9am Pacific time, 5pm UK time, we’ll be recording this week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report, as we do every Monday. Today’s episode will be show number 580. Today also marks the beginning of our sixth year of podcasting: show #1 went out on January 3, 2005. […]
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Full story: Adapting to a new mobile connection
Good news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the coming years must have a standard micro-USB socket for charging the device. GHacks.net reports that […]
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Full story: FIR Interview: Joseph Jaffe, Chief Interrupter, Powered
FIR co-host Shel Holtz catches up with Joseph Jaffe about his role at Dachis Group and his latest book Flip the Funnel. Get this podcast: Download the MP3 file (20.2Mb, 50:24) Get the show on iTunes Subscribe to the FIR Interviews RSS feed Get the FIR app for your iPhone and for your Android device […]
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