CMO – PR Risk ?
Clinton – Starr
The Hunting of the President
Documentarul realizat de Nickolas Perry si Harry Thomason, inspirat de best-sellerul lui Gene Lyons sI Joe Conason, realizeaza
o incursiune
in campaniile care au avut drept scop
discreditarea lui Bill Clinton,
explorind adevarul sau fictiunea din spatele a (aproape) zece ani de atacuri succesive la adresa fostului presedinte al Statelor Unite. Folosind materiale nedezvaluite presei, interviuri si revelatii socante ale “combatantilor” situatI de ambele partI ale baricadei, acest documentar urmareste traiectoria lui Bill Clinton de la zilele in care era guvernator, pina la controversatul sau proces in calitate de presedinte.
comunicare = grefier justitie
Prosecutor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual suspected of breaking the law in a criminal trial.
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Institutional independence
In many countries, the prosecutor’s administration is directly subordinate to the executive branch (e.g the US Attorney General is a member of the President’s cabinet). This relationship theoretically and in some cases practically leads to situations where the public accuser will either falsely charge people (in Putin’s Russia) or refuse to charge arrested persons at all (to keep them in protracted legal limbo as in the case of Guantanamo Bay Camp X-ray),
if that serves political aims.
Many thinkers feel such outcomes are incompatible with basic human rights and constitutional ideals.
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Exit story for Imus
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070413/ap_en_ot/imus_protests
Rutgers team: We accept Don Imus apology
By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press Writer
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said Friday the team had accepted radio host Don Imus’ apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change.
“We, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knight basketball team, accept — accept — Mr. Imus’ apology, and we are in the process of forgiving,” Stringer read from a team statement a day after the women met personally with Imus and his wife.
“We still find his statements to be unacceptable, and this is an experience that we will never forget,” she said.
… called the players “nappy-headed hos.” … set off a national debate about taste and tolerance. …
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18042523/
… ‘Nappy-headed’ can be used ‘lovingly’
Harvard University law professor Randall Kennedy, author of the book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” called Imus’s remarks “terrible and reprehensible.”
“But it is not the words themselves that tell the whole story here,” Kennedy said. “’Nappy-headed’ could be used in a variety of ways, it can be said lovingly or in a complimentary way, but Don Imus said it in to express casual contempt.”
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“Very often it is OK for members of one group to use a pejorative term on other members of that group, such as when black people call each other nigger or gay people call each other fag or dyke,” Sheidlower said.
“But it is almost never OK for non-members of a particular community to use such terminology,” he said. “’Nappy-headed’ in particular is clearly a term which is very, very sensitive.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nappy
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| 2. | (of hair) kinky. |
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| 2. | (of hair) closely or tightly curled. |
| 3. | Slang. marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, or the like. |
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-race-imus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
… Debates over racial expressions are a frequent feature of an American culture still struggling to come to terms with a legacy of slavery and discrimination. “Nappy” is a slur describing the tightly curled hair of many African-Americans. ”Ho” is slang for “whore,” and is commonly used in rap music.
The slur “nappy” has largely fallen out of American usage.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=258755>1=7703&
Imus Options: Radio? Retirement?
Apr 13, 4:18 PM EST
… A new gig would provide Imus with another opportunity for his career to rise phoenixlike as it has in the past — surviving and thriving despite firings, drug and alcohol woes, on-air controversies and a raunchy 1996 Washington appearance where he questioned President Clinton’s sexual fidelity — with the first lady in attendance.
“I don’t believe for a second that you won’t hear from him again,” said fellow WFAN-AM host Mike Francesa, a die-hard Imus backer, on his Friday afternoon program.
http://www.leaningtowardwisdom.com/
This Honky’s Nuts!
Filed Under News
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Update 4-13-2007: This Honky is now unemployed. Here’s an excellent article that appeared in today’s New York Times.
Even so, I don’t think what he said warrants all this fuss. You’d think he had threatened to murder somebody live on the air.
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The man makes his living with words. Inciting emotions, pushing buttons is what Imus does. He’s good at it. This situation evidences that.
The Rutgers team can now whine about their abuse instead of whining about being beaten in the championship game. They’ve gotten more press than the winning Tennessee team. I think Pat Summit should start getting worked up for her team – they’ve being overshadowed because Imus didn’t insult them. Her team, and university, should start a big to do about why Imus didn’t slam them. That’d create a firestorm sure to confuse the masses.
Who cares? Who cares what Imus said? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson?
Was Imus stupid? Frankly, I think he’s behaved foolishly most of his life. His self-confessed drug problems prove that.
I don’t have a real appreciation for him. That’s my choice. My taste. I’m not going to lobby that he be fired. I’m not going to raise a stink that he should formally apologize. I don’t care what he does, or what he says. I don’t think the Rutgers team should care either. Since when do they need approval from Don Imus
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