Last week the
Columbia Journalism Review's online affiliate, CJR Daily, rolled out a radically reconceptualized Web site, which in a spare, Google-ish sort of way tries to cover a variety of
topics of possible interest to journalists. Yesterday, in a section called "Behind the News," CJR Daily referred readers to a
Rolling Stone profile about Washington PR firm Rendon Group,
which, according to
RS, had played a critical role in helping to build the case for Iraq. Rendon Group reportedly earned as much as $100 million from the U.S. Defense Department for public
relations work done between 2000 and 2004. CJR lauds the
Rolling Stone story for calling attention to PR work that, in its view, has resulted in thousands of deaths and untold damage to U.S.
interests around the globe.
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