PR lobbyists infiltrate the internet shock!
Thu, 8 Dec, 2011
It should come as no surprise that Bell Pottinger should have edited Wikipedia articles to benefit its clients. This PR company has lobbied on behalf of an impressive rosta of political nasties and tyrants, after all, from Margaret Thatcher and General Pinochet to Islam Karimov, the President of Uzbekistan whose propensity for boiling people alive and torturing political opponents to death has been nobly exposed by the UK's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray.
Bell Pottinger smiles innocently in the face of even the most extreme forms of villainy. A company spokesman defends acknowledged manipulation of its clients' (including the Uzbeks') Wikipedia entries by saying: "If we've been asked to add anything untrue by clients we have always refused and pointed to Wikipedia's strict guidelines. For every change we have made, we have sought the appropriate approval of the wider Wikipedia community."
Now when a professional liar tells you he doesn't lie, what are you to believe?
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