Hill Heat: ACCCE to Spend $20 Million on Online Media CampaignScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:www.hillheat.com,2005:TypoTypo2009-03-19T10:10:42-04:00Wonk Roomurn:uuid:ade9a7da-2859-49cd-b500-2cf68f51273f2009-03-07T10:07:00-05:002009-03-19T10:10:42-04:00ACCCE to Spend $20 Million on Online Media Campaign<p><i>From the <a href='http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/06/accce-online-job/'>Wonk Room</a>.</i></p>
The top public relations group for the coal industry is looking to shape public attitudes online, with a $20 million media budget for Internet-based advertising alone. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/"><span class="caps">ACCCE</span></a>) is on the search for a “Vice President, Paid and Digital Media” to increase the public’s “appreciation for the use of coal”:
<blockquote>The Vice President, Paid and Digital Media is responsible for implementing proactive digital media and traditional media placement strategies as a component of an integrated national communication program designed to 1) <strong>support coal-based electricity advocacy initiatives</strong> and 2) <strong>increase the public’s awareness of and appreciation for the use of coal to generate electricity</strong>.</blockquote>
<p>This position, according to recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International, will oversee the public relations and media placement firms under contract and manage an annual media budget in excess of $20 million: more than $3 million for “digital media programs” (like the “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/accce-clean-coal-carolers-scrubbed-scrapped-gone">Clean Coal Carolers</a>” and a “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/coal-slurry-blogger-brigade/">Blogger Brigade</a>“) and greater than $17 million for “media placement.”</p>
<p><span class="caps">ACCCE</span>’s planned digital efforts are part of a <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/clean-coal-lie/">comprehensive, national public relations campaign</a>. In 2008, <span class="caps">ACCCE</span> spent <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080825_9335.php">over $45 million</a> on its messaging, including <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/climate_change/">$10.5 million to lobby</a> Congress. The PR firm Hawthorn Group has promoted its “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/coal-lobby-pr-firm-memo-boasts-about-manipulating-democrats-and-republicans">grassroots campaign</a>” for <span class="caps">ACCCE</span> involving “sending ‘clean coal’ branded teams to hundreds of presidential candidate events” and “giving away free t-shirts and hats emblazoned with our branding: Clean Coal.”</p>
<p>The Wonk Room received the <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/vp-paid-digital-media-spec.pdf">job description</a> when Korn/Ferry approached Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Associate Director for Online Advocacy, Alan Rosenblatt, about the job. “While some may work just for money,” Rosenblatt said, “progressives work for values. Which might explain why this headhunter was naive enough to recruit me despite the fact I work for an organization that opposes her client.”</p>
<p>Download the Korn/Ferry job description for <span class="caps">ACCCE</span>’s Vice President of Paid Digital Media <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/vp-paid-digital-media-spec.pdf">here</a>.</p><p><i>From the <a href='http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/06/accce-online-job/'>Wonk Room</a>.</i></p>
The top public relations group for the coal industry is looking to shape public attitudes online, with a $20 million media budget for Internet-based advertising alone. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/"><span class="caps">ACCCE</span></a>) is on the search for a “Vice President, Paid and Digital Media” to increase the public’s “appreciation for the use of coal”:
<blockquote>The Vice President, Paid and Digital Media is responsible for implementing proactive digital media and traditional media placement strategies as a component of an integrated national communication program designed to 1) <strong>support coal-based electricity advocacy initiatives</strong> and 2) <strong>increase the public’s awareness of and appreciation for the use of coal to generate electricity</strong>.</blockquote>
<p>This position, according to recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International, will oversee the public relations and media placement firms under contract and manage an annual media budget in excess of $20 million: more than $3 million for “digital media programs” (like the “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/accce-clean-coal-carolers-scrubbed-scrapped-gone">Clean Coal Carolers</a>” and a “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/coal-slurry-blogger-brigade/">Blogger Brigade</a>“) and greater than $17 million for “media placement.”</p>
<p><span class="caps">ACCCE</span>’s planned digital efforts are part of a <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/clean-coal-lie/">comprehensive, national public relations campaign</a>. In 2008, <span class="caps">ACCCE</span> spent <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080825_9335.php">over $45 million</a> on its messaging, including <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/climate_change/">$10.5 million to lobby</a> Congress. The PR firm Hawthorn Group has promoted its “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/coal-lobby-pr-firm-memo-boasts-about-manipulating-democrats-and-republicans">grassroots campaign</a>” for <span class="caps">ACCCE</span> involving “sending ‘clean coal’ branded teams to hundreds of presidential candidate events” and “giving away free t-shirts and hats emblazoned with our branding: Clean Coal.”</p>
<p>The Wonk Room received the <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/vp-paid-digital-media-spec.pdf">job description</a> when Korn/Ferry approached Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Associate Director for Online Advocacy, Alan Rosenblatt, about the job. “While some may work just for money,” Rosenblatt said, “progressives work for values. Which might explain why this headhunter was naive enough to recruit me despite the fact I work for an organization that opposes her client.”</p>
<p>Download the Korn/Ferry job description for <span class="caps">ACCCE</span>’s Vice President of Paid Digital Media <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/vp-paid-digital-media-spec.pdf">here</a>.</p>