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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. Do they cost 35 cents/hour? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And does this PR agency charge 35 cents per hour and work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week?

  2. Re:Business as usual by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is that Foxconn had to bring in a PR firm known for whitewashing despots.

    Their regular PR agency, known as the PRC's propaganda arm, just wasn't cutting it.

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  3. Re:Quitting: Technically possible, not feasible. by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What China practices is not capitalism. It is simply a more multinational-friendly version of despotism.

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  4. Re:Maybe by Dahamma · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Quote from the Foxconn CEO: “Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.”

    So - my first thought was, "it couldn't have been that bad, I'm sure there was some confusion in the translations".

    And then he LITERALLY invited the director to the Taipei Zoo to "share his experience with the audience on how to manage different animals according to their individual temperaments."

    So yes, Foxconn may really be as bad as they seem.

  5. Re:If you need PR firms, you've failed. by JonySuede · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Johnson & Johnson is one of the few remaining industrial capitalistic corporation.
    Industrial capitalism is great is it see further than a quarter.
    Financial capitalism is to be frown upon as it value short term gains and loss externalization.

    Thank you Regan for starting the move from the industrial capitalism that made all of us relatively prosper,
    to financial capitalism that have made the selected few ridiculously rich and put the many in a perpetual state of precariousness.

     

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