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Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image

Posted by timothy on from the thank-you-for-smoking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Foxconn is insisting that it has done no wrong. But it has hired Burson-Marsteller to deal with the press failout from recent child labour allegations. Burson-Masteller is a PR heavy hitter called in when outfits have big image problems. It handled Tylenol poisonings, and, according to Corporate Watch, the Bhopal disaster, and Three Mile Island. It represented the private military group Blackwater after Baghdad allegations. Its clients have included the Argentinian military junta led by General Jorge Videla and Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and Saudi Arabia after it was pointed out that most of the September 11 attackers were from that country."

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  1. Re:If you need PR firms, you've failed. by El+Torico · · Score: 4, Informative

    You hit the nail squarely on its head. The only company that I can think of offhand that handled a debacle well was Johnson & Johnson during the Tylenol poisonings. They pulled the product quickly and developed tamper evident bottles immediately afterward.

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  2. Re:If you need PR firms, you've failed. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can replace the name "FoxConn" with any corporations name and still be as correct.

    Sort of.

    Burson-Marsteller should be familiar to all Slashdot denizens - they've been long-term astroturfers here for both Microsoft and Facebook. Both companies have been caught using them for smear campaigns against Google.

    Now it looks like Apple/FoxConn have joined the pack, I'd say the Axis is complete again.

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