on television

When you go on the TV as an official spokesperson, they usually put you in front of a blue or green screen, and then put all sorts of stuff behind you. Or maybe just the Eiffel Tower.
Balkany

The Yes Men versus some really stupid French politicians

April, 2007 |

In 2007, we set up a fake TV studio and convinced a powerful French politician he was on right-wing American talk show. Among other things, deputy Patrick Balkany said: "There are no poor people in France. There are people who choose to be homeless - but we feed them, we house them, we wash them...."

 

CNBC

Might makes right

June, 2001 |

On July 6, 2001, an email arrives at GATT.org from a television producer with CNBC Marketwrap Europe. The producer wants a representative of the WTO to debate an “anti-globalization” activist (possibly Naomi Klein) live in front of millions of TV viewers. The date: July 19th, the eve of the G8 protests in Genoa.

Bhopal on BBC

Dow Does the Right Thing

November, 2004 |

Jude announces a radical new direction for Dow, where they take full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal India disaster.

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