Are go betweens and publicity agents. Lotsa money rides on government contracts BM know the right people. They are yours for a price, if you have that kind of money. Anthony Bailey is one of them.
Burson-Marsteller ex Wiki
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Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world. Formed by Harold Burson and Bill Marsteller in 1953, it is now a unit of Young & Rubicam, which is owned by London-based WPP Group. The firm has 58 wholly-owned and 45 affiliated offices in 59 countries across six continents.Burson-Marsteller can trace its beginning to the one-employee business started by Harold Burson in 1946, which was operated as Harold Burson Public Relations in an office space provided by one of his two clients. Burson initially marketed himself as a business-to-business specialist based on his pre-military three-year association with a large engineer-builder that became his first client......
The firm's growth into one of the industry's giants was triggered by becoming one of the first US public relations firms to establish itself in Europe (1961) upon formation of the European Common Market. It was the first public relations firm to achieve $100 million in revenues (1985), $200 million (1992) and $300 million (2000).
In 1994, Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas J. Mosser was killed by a mail bomb sent by "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski. In a letter to the New York Times Kaczynski said he targeted Mosser because the company "helped Exxon clean up its public image after the Exxon Valdez incident" and, more importantly, because "its business is the development of techniques for manipulating people's attitudes."
In 1999, Harold Burson was named by PRWeek as the industry's "most influential person of the 20th Century."
Notable current employees of the company include Karen Hughes, former senior aide to US President George W. Bush, Mark Penn, political polling consultant and former chief strategist of the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and current CEO of Burson-Marsteller, and former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.
Notable clients
Blackwater USA
Burson-Marsteller represented Blackwater USA following a September 16, 2007 incident in which Blackwater employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians, according to the Iraqi government's investigation. Former B-M executive Robert Tappan worked on the firm's Blackwater account. Tappan worked at B-M's lobbying subsidiary, BKSH & Associates, and is a former US State Department official. BKSH helped Blackwater founder and head Erik Prince prepare for his October 2 testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Their client list is ugly. Theodore Kaczynski aka Unabomber thought so too. He killed Mosser, one of theirs for manipulating people's attitudes. Ted is a Jew.
Burson-Marsteller - SourceWatch
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Burson-Marsteller is the world's fifth largest PR company (Source: Council of PR Firms, 2002) and part of the WPP Group. According to a 2004 profile in The Hill, a Washington, DC newspaper, "This multinational PR behemoth has an active public-affairs practice led by Richard Mintz, who ran the media shop at the Department of Transportation during the Clinton administration. He also served as staff director for Hillary Clinton during the 1992 campaign. B-M has won awards recently for its work for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the "No on Proposition 54" campaign in California. Its public-affairs practice is bolstered by its affiliation with Direct Impact (grassroots marketing) and BKSH & Associates (lobbying)."
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Source Watch does not like Burson-Mar stellar. Nor do I. Any dirty cause, any dirty lie mean lotsa dirty money.