bistro777
Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do?
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| Re: Business as usual Without trying to put words in Karl’s mouth (and he did include a link to the IDI client list and label it as such) - - Do you really think the “Defenders of the Wildlife” or the “Center for Marine Conservation” pay (influence?) IDI as much as, say, SBC or Verizon? And BTW, Issue Dynamics is not in all things a neutral party. For example, in addition to being an influential lobbying firm, IDI is a regular and active contributor to policos, especially the Democratic National Party. And IDI’s “backroom role” in the anti-MCI furor appeared typical of an operation trying to cloud any “follow the money” traceback to those funding the action.
From one Verizon-funded study by these folks - - “To ensure a fair competitive environment for corporations, maximum choice for consumers, an equality of access for the public will require a level of policy discourse yet to be achieved. Our moment has arrived - our challenge is to influence that discourse now while we have the chance to shape the future.”
So to take IDI and its New Millenium Research Council with a grain of salt only seems prudent to me…
"There are no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign." - - Robert Louis Stevenson |
