Media expert exposes marketing of NB Power sale
Posted by alex_c on January 5th, 2010
The province of New Brunswick has hired the services of international public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton, to help convince New Brunswickers to support the proposed sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec. Hill and Knowlton is notorious for its work on a wide variety of unethical campaigns including selling the Gulf War to the American public, disputing the carcinogenicity of cigarettes, and glossing over the missing ballots of the 2004 American election. During a recent conference in Moncton, Mount Allison University professor, Erin Steuter, provided the following account of the marketing strategies that are being used by the government.
– Colleen Reynolds, who may be a Public Relations Consultant in NB, who may or may not have been involved in the Saint John board of trade, has taken vehement exception to this article.
January 5th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Great article!