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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 15, 2011 0:53:57 GMT 1
outside-org.co.uk/services/PUBLICITY Our team consists of some of the most talented publicists working in the industry today. We know just what makes or breaks a story, we have a keen interest in every aspect of the media and we have an unrivalled contacts book - from national media proprietor level through to regional blogger. In our opinion, the industry has too many PRs and too few publicists – people who really know what it takes to deliver a story and a key message which over time, will create talkability, will build a brand to its full potential and will deliver the result a client is looking for. From brand-Beckham, Belstaff and Bowie to Naomi Campbell, Champneys and Alice Cooper, we’ve worked alongside many of the most famous names and brands of modern times. And delivered for them. EVENTS We have vast experience in managing some of the biggest (and smallest) events across the UK. From a round table industry discussion or intimate media dinner to the MOBOS, Help For Heroes Charity Event, Q Awards, Led Zeppelin’s first live performance in 30 years and the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards, we’ve been in the thick of it and come away having secured great events, big books of cuttings, happy journalists and contented clients. Film premiere or celebrity product launch, we know how to manage a red carpet and we know how to maximise opportunity on the night to ensure an impressive noise and a great reaction across the next day’s media. CRISIS MANAGEMENT From the Beckhams alleged kidnap plot, to Jerry Hall’s incarceration in the Caribbean on trumped up drugs charges, the So Solid Crew gun charges to Naomi Campbell’s evidence at The Hague and Climategate – we’ve seen it all, and more importantly, we’ve dealt with them. We have enormous experience in the field of media and privacy issues and have managed some of the most delicate ‘crises’ imaginable. Outside has advised and represented rock stars, footballers and business moguls in how to handle potentially damaging situations in the most effective, speedy and discreet fashion. We have broad experience in the legal aspects of difficult crisis situations. And, we are equipped to give immediate advice and put into place action plans without the need to defer decisions to a whole chain of experts at the drop of a hat. Often Outside has had to think on its feet with deadlines looming and clients hard to contact. We do of course work with most of the entertainment legal firms on the finer points of the law but have the necessary background and experience to weigh up situations and give the client the crucial advice when they most need it. DIGITAL PR The web has exploded, social media has erupted and the way a celebrity, band or brand is created and maintained has changed as a result. For us, digital is just another communications channel and with our experienced team, we are in prime position to help create and manage the right online buzz and reputation for our clients. We were there at the start of the digital PR revolution and have helped artists and brands over the years – from Sirens to Diddy – to make the right digital noise..
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 15, 2011 0:59:54 GMT 1
“Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRUSteve McIntyre Jul 14, 2011 Today brings news of the arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit to carry out “covert” operations . Neil Wallis of Outside Organisation was arrested today in connection with the spreading News of the World scandal. Last year, Wallis’ partner at Outside Organisation , Alan Edwards, was profiled in Music Week in a story that led with: Don’t tell the conspiracy theorists. But one PR company was at the centre of the Michael Jackson funeral, Climategate and Naomi Campbell’s appearance at Charles Taylor’s trial in The Hague.Edwards is described as the “man who has also helped shape the careers of Amy Winehouse, Blondie, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, David Bowie, Spice Girls, David Beckham, P Diddy, Kevin Pietersen and Shayne Ward” and the man who masterminded PR for Naomi Campbell’s trial. Outside Organisation’s handling of Climategate for CRU was described as “more covert”. Less apparent is its work in the corporate field, where its activities tend to be rather more covert. [my bold]
“We don’t advertise a lot of the things we do,” says Edwards, who was called in by the University of East Anglia when Climategate blew up. “That was really interesting. It’s very high level, and you’re very much in the background on that sort of thing.”
The university’s Climatic Research Unit wanted Outside to fire back some shots on the scientists’ behalf after leaked emails from the unit gave climate change skeptics ammunition and led to an avalanche of negative press about whether global warming was a real possibility.more here! climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comments
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 15, 2011 1:06:49 GMT 1
"Wallis led on the University of East Anglia “climategate” job, when Outside was drafted in to help the university’s Climatic Research Unit defend itself against charges of scientific misconduct."
"They needed someone with heavyweight contacts who could come in and sort things out, and next week there was a front-page story telling it from their side."
Ross McKitrick opines:
I guess when the UEA heard their communications had been hacked, they went looking for an expert to help them out.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 15, 2011 1:14:21 GMT 1
I guess that when you're accused of scientific misconduct a celeb PR firm is the logical first resort, isn't it?
And now one of the partners is arrested. Fascinating!
Don't tell me I don't provide this board with entertaining tidbits!
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 15, 2011 1:18:22 GMT 1
Brian H comments
...whose funds, authorized and distributed by whom, in what amounts, went to O.O. to disinform the world about Climategate?
It may help account for the existence and persistence of a number of themes and memes, not least the “hacking of personal emails” one.
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teehee!
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Post by StuartG on Jul 15, 2011 8:43:33 GMT 1
Well done MM, at about the time You were posting, I had retired suffering from 'information overload', and was surprised to find that we had both reached the same place, starting from [seemingly] diametrically opposed points. Here are some of the links found.... ---- "Public relations" "He then worked for the Outside Organisation, a company specialising in public relations,[4] becoming Managing Director in 2010.[5] Wallis' own company, Chamy Media, provided "strategic communication advice and support" to the Metropolitan Police on a part-time basis from October 2009 to September 2010 whilst the Met's Deputy Director of Public Affairs was on extended sick leave.[6][7]" "Arrest" "On 14 July 2011, Wallis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal.[8] Upon the announcement of this Outside Organisation edited their website, removing his listing as MD and a part of his biography which had stated 'What he [Wallis] doesn’t know about journalism and media isn’t worth knowing'. [9]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Wallis#Public_relations----- "Media tycoon Richard Desmond is using The Outside Organisation to handle comms around his takeover of broadcaster Five." prweek.co.uk/uk/news/1018856/Richard-Desmond-turns-Outside-Organisation-Five-takeover"Channel Five outsources press office to The Outside Organisation" Kate Magee, prweek.com, 27 October 2010, 9:35am "Desmond, whose Northern & Shell group also owns the Daily Express and Daily Star, bought Five Group from entertainment network RTL for £104m in July this year. The Outside Organisation has been working with Desmond since June – during his bid and post-purchase. Lesley Land, Outside head of consumer PR and former Taylor Herring publicist, will head Five’s press office, reporting to agency CEO Alan Edwards. The channel’s corporate PR will be overseen by MD Neil Wallis and director of strategy Sam Bowen." ----- Statement re Chamy Media [Metropolitan Police statement] 14 July 2011 content.met.police.uk/News/Statement-re-Chamy-Media/1260269274255/1257246745756----- "Outside Organisation MD Neil Wallis arrested in hacking investigation" Alec Mattinson, prweek.com, 14 July 2011, 12:11pm www.prweek.com/news/1080238---- "Paul v Heather: the PR verdict" # MediaGuardian, Wednesday 24 May 2006 18.54 BST "..However, thanks to the stewardship of the Outside Organisation..." www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/may/24/marketingandpr.comment---- CHAMY MEDIA LTDFLAT 4 15 BOLTON ROAD CHISWICK LONDON UK W4 3TE ( Dissolved )www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/chamy-mediaStuartG
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 16, 2011 10:15:45 GMT 1
WELL DONE THE EASTERN DAILY PRESS! www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/ex_news_of_the_world_man_advised_uea_over_climategate_1_965732 A very good summary of the "known" situation to date. Ex-News of the World man advised UEA over ‘climategate’Peter Walsh Saturday, July 16, 2011 A man arrested as part of the Scotland Yard investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World gave advice to the University of East Anglia over the Climategate affair. Neil Wallis, managing director of consumer agency the Outside Organisation and former News of the World executive editor, became the ninth person to be arrested in connection with the scandal on Thursday. The 60-year-old, who was deputy editor under Andy Coulson’s editorship, was detained in a dawn raid on his west London home and questioned for several hours at Hammersmith police station. The EDP has discovered that Wallis, who joined Outside Organisation in October 2009 as a senior consultant, was used by the UEA following the Climategate scandal which broke out in 2009 following the leak of thousands of emails which climate change sceptics claimed showed data had been manipulated in favour of man-made climate change. A UEA spokesman confirmed Wallis did give them advice following the scandal which last year saw Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit cleared by a committee of MPs of hiding or manipulating data to back up his own science. The revelation came on another extraordinary day in the phone hacking scandal as Rebekah Brooks finally resigned as chief executive of News International amid growing political and commercial pressure on the company and owner Rupert Murdoch prepared to use adverts in national newspapers today to apologise for the NoW’s “serious wrongdoing”. The UEA spokesman said: “The vice-chancellor sought communications advice from a large PR company following the unauthorised publication of emails from the Climatic Research Unit. The company assigned Neil Wallis to us for this purpose.” Last March Phil Willis, chairman of the commons science and technology committee, said there was no case to answer following accusations of dishonesty levied at Prof Jones. There have been several reviews, and a police investigation, into the saga, which began weeks before the important Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The committee’s largely positive findings were welcomed by the UEA, and Edward Acton, vice-chancellor, said: “We are delighted that the select committee has produced a fair and balanced report that makes crystal-clear that the scientific reputation of Prof Jones and Cru remains intact’”. Wallis, who is understood to have been released on bail until October, was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1(1) Criminal Law Act 1977. He is no longer listed as the agency’s MD on Outside Organisation’s website. Instead, the site states: ‘Neil became a freelance media consultant to Outside in 2009.’ Outside’s website has also deleted a portion of Wallis’ biography that read: ‘What he [Wallis] doesn’t know about journalism and media isn’t worth knowing.’ Following his arrest it also emerged that Scotland Yard had paid Wallis £24,000 to work as a two-day-a-month public relations consultant. His contract was cancelled less than six months before the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking was launched. Home secretary Theresa May has written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to demand an explanation, while the commissioner, who will now give evidence to the Commons Home Committee looking into the police investigation, was also summoned for a “very frank discussion” with London Mayor Boris Johnson.
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Post by principled on Jul 16, 2011 12:34:31 GMT 1
Marchesa, REF: UEA Who better to use when you're trying to destroy your enemy than ..., as Woodrow Wilson put it:
He was of course referring to the NoW and its journalists! P
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Post by StuartG on Jul 17, 2011 0:19:58 GMT 1
worth a read.... ""Daniel Morgan (private investigator)" " this first part deserves to be read in its entirety from the Wiki here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan_%28private_investigator%29it sets the scene for a lot of the events of more recent times, below are a few hi-lights... "Daniel Morgan was a private investigator brutally murdered in Sydenham, south east London, in March 1987. He was said to have been close to exposing important police corruption. His death was the subject of several failed police inquiries and in 2011 was at the centre of allegations concerning the suspect conduct of News of the World journalists. Morgan's unsolved murder has been described as a reminder of the old London police culture of corruption and unaccountability." ............. "Daniel Morgan had an exceptional memory for small details, such as car registration numbers[1] and in 1984 he set up a detective agency, Southern Investigations, in Thornton Heath, Surrey.[2]" ............. "On March 10, 1987 after having a drink with Jonathan Rees, his partner in Southern Investigations, at the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, Morgan was found dead in the pub car park[3] next to his car, with an axe wound to the back of his head[4] Although a watch had been stolen his wallet had not been taken. ............... Morgan was alleged to have mentioned concerns about significant police corruption in south London before his death. ............... Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, stationed at Catford police station, was assigned to the case but did not reveal to his superiors that he had been working unofficially for Southern Investigations.[4] .............. In April 1987 six individuals including Sid Fillery and Jonathan Rees, the brothers Glenn and Garry Vian and two Metropolitan police officers were arrested on suspicion of murder but all were eventually released without charge.[4]" ............ "After the collapse of the Old Bailey trial in March 2011 it was revealed that Jonathan Rees had earned £150,000 a year from the News of the World for supplying illegally obtained information about people in the public eye.[6][7] ............ After Rees completed his prison sentence for perverting the course of justice, he had been hired again by the News of the World, at the time edited by Andy Coulson." ---- "Jonathan Rees: private investigator who ran empire of tabloid corruption" "News of the World paid £150,000 a year to man who obtained information from corrupt police and illegal sources" * Nick Davies * guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 March 2011 18.17 GMT www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/11/jonathan-rees-private-investigator-tabloid---- "Journalists caught on tape in police bugging" "Surveillance operation exposes black market in data" * Graeme McLagan * The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 01.20 BST www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/21/privacy ---- Phone hacking: Panorama to name sixth journalist in News of the World scandal # guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 March 2011 18.07 GMT "Hacker hired by senior News of the World executive to intercept emails, BBC documentary says" www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/13/phone-hacking-panorama-names-journalist---- "The Spy, The Hacker and The News of the World " www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlfcHUpMHUE&feature=related---- Panorama Last broadcast on Sun, 20 Mar 2011, 20:30 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zn7hk---- Beyond the law, private eyes who do the dirty work for journalists Recent disclosures shed welcome light on the shadowy world of investigators By Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter, Jonathan Brown and Matt Blake Wednesday, 13 July 2011 www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/beyond-the-law-private-eyes-who-do-the-dirty-work-for-journalists-2312702.html----
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Post by StuartG on Jul 17, 2011 9:19:21 GMT 1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Thurlbeck"Neville Thurlbeck is a British journalist who is chief reporter for the tabloid newspaper News of the World. He was responsible for the exclusive over Max Mosley's private life which resulted in his newspaper being sued.[1] In 1998 Thurlbeck was the newspaper journalist who 'outed' the Cabinet Minister Nick Brown as a homosexual.[2] He also broke the a story in 2004 which alleged footballer David Beckham was having an affair.[3] In 2009 Thurlbeck was reported as one of the journalists who had received transcripts of intercepted calls in a high profile phone hacking scandal.[4] He was arrested on 5 April 2011 after voluntarily attending a police interview.[5]" ----- www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/05/phone-hacking-affair-now-journalists-arrested"Phone hacking: NoW journalists arrested" "Former news editor and current chief reporter arrested after presenting themselves at separate London police stations" * Amelia Hill * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011 12.36 BST "Ian Edmondson and Neville Thurlbeck had voluntarily presented themselves at different London police stations this morning and were arrested. It was expected their homes would be searched by officers at midday." ----- www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tabloid-journalist-cleared-of-paying-police-officer-for-stories-707398.html"Tabloid journalist cleared of paying police officer for stories" By Brian Farmer Friday, 21 July 2000 "Neville Thurlbeck, the News of the World's chief crime reporter, and Detective Constable Richard Farmer were cleared of conspiracy to corrupt" ----- mediabastard.co.uk/2011/04/05/news-of-the-world-reporter-neville-thurlbeck-arrested/April 5, 2011 · 1:09 pm "News of the World reporter Neville Thurlbeck arrested (and here’s a dirty little story about him…)" "I only mention this because you won’t see it reported in many parts of the national press." ...... "But for those of you who care about the moral calibre of the gatekeepers of tabloid information, here’s a little tidbit about Neville Thurlbeck, otherwise known as Onan the Barbarian…" ----- www.peterburden.net/archives/tag/neville-thurlbeck"Neville ‘Onan the Barbarian’ Thurlbeck – not hard at work" April 7th, 2011 "I hope this doesn’t spoil your breakfast, but it’s important we should know how diligently this man goes about his work. – before we judge him too harshly." ----- tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2011/04/neville-thurlbeck.htmlWednesday, April 6, 2011 .... Comment: List of achievements, not exhaustive.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 17, 2011 11:11:46 GMT 1
Eventually, I suppose, wikipedia and the more intelligent of the press corps will get around to the East Anglia Climategate connection with this scandal.
Remember, the EA Constabulary has supposedly been "investigating" the Climategate leak/hack since it happened in Nov 2009 with no result, so far!
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Post by StuartG on Jul 17, 2011 12:06:58 GMT 1
"Eventually, I suppose, wikipedia and the more intelligent of the press corps will get around to the East Anglia Climategate connection with this scandal." You're showing too much faith MM, even for a Sunday. "Jimmy Wales to stop global warming with website" green.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Greengawker.com/5047420/jimmy-wales-to-stop-global-warming-with-website?tag=valleywag---- In the various posts there are two names that appear together, as it were, Guardian and BBC. Here's one point of view... "The real reason for the Guardian-BBC assault on News International" Published 07/07/2011 .... "The hypocrisy and double standards at play here are incredible. The Guardian has not pursued this story for the noble aim of getting at the truth, but in a desperate effort to undermine Rupert Murdoch, with the full connivance of its broadcast arm, the BBC. The phone hacking scandal, while criminal and disgusting, is nothing more than a rider for a campaign where something far greater is at stake – maintaining the left-liberal media consensus that holds sway in this country, ably laid bare by this 2009 column by Stephen Glover in the Mail in which he refers to this ‘intellectual tyranny’.".... autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/the-real-reason-for-the-guardian-bbc-assault-on-news-international/---- "Cameron may hug as many huskies as he likes, but the biased BBC will always hate him because he is a Tory" Last updated at 3:44 AM on 16th July 2009 "The first interesting point about this story is that it was not the BBC's. The Guardian newspaper began running it on its website late last Wednesday afternoon, and cleared countless pages on Thursday, and again on Friday. The second interesting point is that BBC news bulletins on Wednesday evening had been primed, as had BBC2's Newsnight, which went nuclear. They had had several hours to prepare the story because Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, had alerted Helen Boaden, head of BBC News, earlier in the day. " www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1199951/David-Cameron-hug-huskies-likes-biased-BBC-hate-Tory.html---- Larry Page and Sergey Brin United States Net worths: $17.5 billion and $17.5 billion Through Google.org, the Google co-founders have committed over $100 million in grants to non-profits and investments in companies ranging from renewable energy ventures to development of plug-in electric vehicle technologies. Google's corporate office is solar-powered and all the furniture in one of its buildings is made from recycled material. Also created Google PowerMeter, a monitoring tool that provides Web users a means to track home electricity use. www.forbes.com/2010/04/21/branson-khosla-doerr-technology-green-billionaires_slide_6.htmlDon't hold Your breath....
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 17, 2011 13:32:24 GMT 1
Arrest of Rebekah Brooks!
What a boot in the teeth for NewsCorp! No wonder they accepted her resignation!
Thing is, is it just window dressing by the Met (Police not Meteorology) - to appear to be taking the matter seriously at last?
Come to think of it, maybe the METeorologists ARE in the loop of corruption, too.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 17, 2011 22:50:50 GMT 1
Sir Paul Stephenson resigns, too!
Apparently he felt inhibited about talking about the News International hacking because of the PM's closeness to Andy Coulson! Indeed!
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Post by marchesarosa on Jul 18, 2011 17:29:24 GMT 1
Deputy Police Commissioner, John Yates, bites the dust. Of course, his integrity and his clear conscience are not in doubt. It's all a malicious diversion from the Olympics and Terrorism!
Clark and Heyman also under suspicion re hacking.
What about Stephenson's £12,000 freebie at Champneys?
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