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Interviewed by ''PR Week'' in February 2006, [[Dewhurst]], admitted they were using the classic PR technique of using a third party to push the nuclear message. "Now we use a company called Strategic Awareness, which uses in-depth research to help us develop our message. We spread that via third-party opinion because the public would be suspicious if we started ramming pro-nuclear messages down their throats". {{ref|pr}} | Interviewed by ''PR Week'' in February 2006, [[Dewhurst]], admitted they were using the classic PR technique of using a third party to push the nuclear message. "Now we use a company called Strategic Awareness, which uses in-depth research to help us develop our message. We spread that via third-party opinion because the public would be suspicious if we started ramming pro-nuclear messages down their throats". {{ref|pr}} | ||
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| + | == The Spin Doctors Messages on Nuclear== | ||
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| + | Documents released under Freedom of Information show what kind of message Stratgic Awareness have been developing for BNFL | ||
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| + | Other documents are also illuminating: | ||
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| + | ===Let's Celebate== | ||
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| + | When a poll was published in the Times that showed that "public opinion" had swung in favour of nuclear | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 11:47, 4 April 2006
Contents
Background
A PR company set up in 2001 by Simone Emmett and Tony Emmett. Both Simone Emmett and Philip Dewhurst, from BNFL and chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association spoke at the same session at the fifth joint Nuclear Industry Association/BNES one day "Energy Choices" Conference in December 2005. The session was called "Beyond the Surface – Communicating nuclear energy." [1]
Spreading the Message Via Third Parties
Interviewed by PR Week in February 2006, Dewhurst, admitted they were using the classic PR technique of using a third party to push the nuclear message. "Now we use a company called Strategic Awareness, which uses in-depth research to help us develop our message. We spread that via third-party opinion because the public would be suspicious if we started ramming pro-nuclear messages down their throats". [2]
The Spin Doctors Messages on Nuclear
Documents released under Freedom of Information show what kind of message Stratgic Awareness have been developing for BNFL
Other documents are also illuminating:
=Let's Celebate
When a poll was published in the Times that showed that "public opinion" had swung in favour of nuclear
External Links
- ^ Alex Black, "Issues Management: How Nuclear Power got its Groove Back", PR Week, March 2, 2006
- ^ Nuclear Industry Association and British Nuclear Energy Society Energy Choices Conference December 1, 2005
