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Edelman Apologizes For Fake Walmart Blog

Yesterday, Edelman president, CEO and namesake, Richard Edelman, apologized for Walmarting Across America.

11:38 AM on Tue Oct 17 2006, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 4 comments

Edelman's Breath on Our Neck. Verdict? It Tickles!

Eww.

3:34 PM on Mon Jun 5 2006, by popkin, 0 views, 11 comments

Vroom-Vroom, Putt-Putt: Edelman Drives the Blogosphere.

Part of our soul yearned to rip into Edelman like a batch of Amy's Ice Cream. But then, we decided to let it go and rise above, a little fluffy cloud, mainly to avoid playing into their sticky mandibles. Try as we might, we could not avoid posting...

2:42 PM on Tue Jun 6 2006, by popkin, 0 views, 1 comment

Edelman: How We Taught The World That Illegal Downloading Is A No-No

Edelman's website is a treasure trove of self-congratulatory videos, but this little gem is, well, something else. This 2 minute promo explains how Edelman reframed the dialog about illegally downloading music, with a "fully integrated campaign."

6:39 PM on Tue Jan 23 2007, by Meg Marco, 0 views, 7 comments

Edelman Reveals 2 More Walmart Flogs

Walmart's PR firm today publicly disclosed two more fake blogs shilling for Walmart and took steps to increase their transparency.

12:28 PM on Fri Oct 20 2006, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 19 comments

101 Dumbest Moments In Business: Walmart Hiring Edelman

CNN has put together a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business and Walmart's choice to hire Edelman PR took home the golden dunce.

4:59 PM on Thu Jan 25 2007, by Meg Marco, 0 views, 3 comments

Spinning Walmart: Astroturfing, Edelman, And Why Walmart's TVs Are Tuned To Fox News

A new article in the New Yorker examines Walmart's complicated relationship with its PR company, Edelman, with whom readers of the Consumerist have become so well-aquainted. The reporter goes inside Walmart's "home office" in Bentonville, AR,...

1:59 PM on Tue Mar 27 2007, by Meg Marco, 0 views, 27 comments

Walmart, Edelman, And The Future Of Flogs

Reader something_amazing pinged us on our thoughts of the fallout over Edelman, Walmart, PR and blogs. It serves as a nice excuse to vent on this subject so we thought we would share them with you.

6:34 PM on Fri Oct 20 2006, by Ben Popken, 0 views, Comment

Wal-Marting Across America, Banned Pix Revealed

Walmart's minions may have pulled down the photographers blog that was a blatant front for Edelman PR. But that doesn't stop us or you from using the magic of Google cache to see what flackery filled the pages of Wal-Marting Across America.

1:51 PM on Wed Oct 11 2006, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 6 comments

Dumb Little Man has published tips for simplifying your finances written by Rande Spiegelman, Vice President of Financial Planning at Schwab Center for Financial Research. They're actually pretty interesting, despite being submitted to the site by...

12:28 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007, by Meg Marco, 0 views, Comment