Dirty Politics was published to give the full and comprehensive list of winners and losers.
The naked truth is that there were so many outrageous abuses of power outed in this book that it’s difficult to highlight the worst ones because they were all so fucking uniquely grotesque!
It’s like lepers judging a beauty contest, where do you start?
WINNERS:
Big Sugar – without a doubt, Big Sugar are the biggest winners of
Dirty Politics. Being able to publicly torment and molest any public health researcher who dared suggest a sugar tax was of enormous help to lobbyists Carrick Graham and Katherine Rich and the fact that we are further away from imposing a sugar tax than ever before shows how incredibly good
The Dirty Politics defamation case ended dramatically last week with an apology no one expected.
The case exposed details about how a lobbyist paid a blogger to post damaging messages attacking public health advocates.
But crucial information about the involvement of the powerful international tobacco lobby was never revealed.
Within hours of the case opening at High Court in Auckland, the PR man and lobbyist Carrick Graham settled with an apology and payment for his part in spreading defamatory statements about three public health experts; Doug Sellman of Alcohol Action; health professor Boyd Swinburn; and former director of the Māori Smokefree Coalition, Shane Bradbrook.
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PR man Carrick Graham, who has this week confessed to making statements that were untrue, unfair, offensive, insulting and defamatory . Photo / Doug Sherring
PR man Carrick Graham, who has this week confessed to making statements that were untrue, unfair, offensive, insulting and defamatory . Photo / Doug Sherring
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Why hasn t the Government banned sugary drinks in schools? And how come KFC is able to promote its chicken as the perfect food for every occasion you could possibly think of? The evidence for the addictive qualities of soft drinks and fatty foods is now widely accepted, as is the evidence for the harm they do. Just one statistic: a thousand people a year in this country have a foot or leg amputated because of type 2 diabetes: a disease caused by an excess of sugary and fatty foods.
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Hit jobs case: PR consultant apologises and promises cash to settle defamation case that came from Dirty Politics
3 Mar, 2021 07:10 AM
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PR consultant Carrick Graham in his Parnell office. Photo / Doug Sherring
An apology and cash payment has been made by a public relations consultant to three public health experts who were victims of defamatory online attacks alleged to have been funded by money from Big Sugar and Big Tobacco.
The apology from Carrick Graham came in the opening hours of a defamation case at the High Court in Auckland in which evidence was to be produced showing he had taken money from clients in alcohol and food industries and paid former Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater to attack public health researchers.