[ExI] Time Magazine: Person of the Year: Putin

[PJ Manney]

Back in December, there was much consternation on this list over Time
Magazine's dubbing Vladimir Putin "Person of the Year".  Now you will
understand why he was chosen.

BTW, it always helps to know where your media comes from.  It usually
comes from highly paid PR executives in the employ of the people or
corporations they're shilling.

PJ

Published on Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org)

Ketchum Caught "Man of the Year" Title for Putin

Vladimir Putin and George Bush (July 2007 [1])Ketchum [2], the PR firm
involved in the Armstrong Williams [3] "pundit payola" scandal, helped
Vladimir Putin become Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2007.
The firm also conducted "dozens of media briefings in Moscow, New York
and Washington, D.C. for both the Russia [4]n Federation and its
natural gas monopoly Gazprom [5]," reports O'Dwyer's. Ketchum was paid
$845,000 for two months of work for the Russian Federation in early
2007, around the G8 [6] Summit and visits to Moscow by U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice [7] and Defense Secretary Robert Gates [8].
Ketchum has a $250,000 per month contract with Gazprom; the gas
company also pays the Gavin Anderson [9] firm $100,000 per month. In
2007, Ketchum's Gazprom work included "several press and think tank
[10] briefings," and organizing "meetings as executives visited the
U.S. in late November and early December."
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Source URL:
http://www.prwatch.org/node/7021


Links:
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vladimir_Putin_and_George_W._Bush.jpg
[2] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum
[3] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Armstrong_Williams
[4] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Russia
[5] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gazprom
[6] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=G8
[7] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Condoleezza_Rice
[8] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Gates
[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gavin_Anderson
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=think_tank