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Crimecore · Nov 18, 2011

Saw about 5 "Friends of Coal" bumper stickers today, reminded me of an Important time in Harlan County Kentucky's History.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsjrnWYSww

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nike · Nov 18, 2011

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Friends of Coal, Friends of Coal Industry

According to their website, the Friends of Coal is a "… volunteer organization that consists of both West Virginians and residents from beyond our borders." Sounds all very grassroots. Just a group of citizens joining together to cheer on the glories of coal.
For a volunteer organization Friends of Coal are very well-heeled - how many volunteer groups have a sponsored race car, run television ads and send logo-ed frisbees to the troops in Iraq?
Not many.

It didn't take long though to figure out where all that money is coming from. The Friends of Coal is a thinly veiled front group of the main coal industry lobby group in West Virginia, the West Virginia Coal Association. Most obvious is the logo in the bottom left hand corner of the Friends of Coal website (but no disclosure of their involvement) and a quick domain name search finds that the Friends of Coal website is registered to the West Virginia Coal Association.

The membership of the West Virginia Coal Association is the who's who of the coal industry.

The technique is called astroturfing and it's one of the oldest public relations ploys in the spindoctor play-book. While most people inherently mistrust big industry, they do trust their neighbors and groups who do not appear agenda-driven and that's why astroturfing works.

At least it does until pesky sites like DeSmogBlog start to poke at.
http://www.desmogblog.com/friends-of-co ... l-industry

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