Sunday, May 11, 2014  How Much Are We Paying To Be A Mouthpiece
For Big Oil?    According to the Globe's Eric Reguly the going
rate is about $207,000...  A page:  ...What is clever about the
ad (boosting the Keystone XL pipeline) is not the photo; it is
the headline and the succinct lines of copy beneath it. They are
slick pieces of propaganda – misleading without being outright
lies. Of course, advertising is all about propaganda. But this
ad is unconscionable because you, the Canadian taxpayer, paid
for it. The rate for a full-page ad in that location, according
to Condé Nast, publisher of The New Yorker, is $207,000 (U.S.).
The ad appeared in the April 14 issue and was sponsored by, the
federal government site that is trying to convince the skeptical
that the Alberta oil sands – known as the tar sands to non-
Canadians – and the export pipelines that would allow the
megaproject to thrive for decades are a “secure, responsible
source of energy for the global market” (“Keystone” does not
appear in the ad)...