More Lipstick On Chevron's Pig

from HuffPost:



Paul Paz y Miño
Posted: June 18, 2009

More Lipstick On Chevron's Pig


Sooner of later, no matter how much you try to pretty it up, the neighbors are going to smell that tremendous mountain of decaying garbage you've been hiding in the backyard for more than three decades. Nowadays everyone seems to be smelling Chevron's trash, as more criticism surfaces about their attempts to mislead the public with fake "reports". This time it's the Columbia Journalism Review calling out former CNN correspondent Gene Randall for shilling for Chevron (as did the National Journal Online).

The New York Times published an article in May exposing Chevron's attempt to pass off its corporate propaganda as legitimate news and using YouTube to spread it - an attempt which is failing miserably, as the video has been viewed fewer than 6,000 times in several weeks (follow this link to watch it if you like, but be warned, Chevron won't let you comment on it there). Perhaps Chevron should have considered hiring one of Jon Stewart's "correspondents" instead; the news would be just as fake, but they would have gotten more hits.

One expects more savvy from the company that produced the overly-slick Will You Join Us? commercials. However those ads seem to have more people joining the communities fighting Chevron's toxic operations than joining in Chevron's greenwashing efforts. In fact, Chevron's PR efforts seem to backfire every time. Another apparent Chevron tactic: shower sponsorship money on PBS' Newshour and see what coverage surfaces with Chevron's spin in it (or settle for no coverage on the issue at all). ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-paz-y-mino/more-lipstick-on-chevrons_b_217012.html

Although you have to admit, with all those chins, he does sort of look like a pig.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins

Pretty typical dumb ass anti-nuke, that Lovins, can't wait to greenwash dangerous fossil fuels.