{"id":11587,"date":"2013-06-21T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:03:42","slug":"monsanto-wins-headline-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=11587","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Wins Headline Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m guessing that nobody at Monsanto has ever invoked the adage, “There is is no such thing as bad publicity.” The biotech giant, already a bogeyman<\/a>\u00a0to the anti-globalization\/anti-corporate\/anti-GMO crowd, has endured a particularly rough PR stretch of late.<\/p>\n

Order Soma 350Mg Online Last month, protesters from around the globe\u00a0marched<\/a> against the company. Then came news<\/a> of\u00a0Monsanto’s “rogue” GMO wheat, a curious mystery<\/a>\u00a0that has\u00a0reignited<\/a>\u00a0the “contamination<\/a>”\u00a0meme.<\/p>\n

Buy Alprazolam No Prescription All this notoriety makes Monsanto a media magnet. So when three scientists were awarded<\/a> the annual World Food Prize this week–one of them being from Monsanto–most editors and reporters hooked their stories to…you guessed it: Monsanto. The angle was telegraphed by the headlines.<\/p>\n

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-myths/ New York Times<\/em>:<\/a>\u00a0“Executive at Monsanto Wins Global Food Honor”<\/p>\n

https://dentalprovidence.com/crowding/ Financial Times<\/em><\/a>: “World Food Prize to Monsanto exec”<\/p>\n

Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription Reuters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was a bit more inclusive: “Monsanto Exec, other biotech pioneers win World Food Prize”<\/p>\n

Same with\u00a0MarketWatch<\/a><\/em>: “Monsanto exec shares world food prize for genetically modified crops”<\/p>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/dental-check-up-in-las-vegas/ The Cattle Network<\/a>\u00a0(yes, there is such a thing) was rather parsimonious:\u00a0“Monsanto scientist, two others win World Food Prize”<\/p>\n

Order Tramadol Overnight USA Today<\/a><\/em>\u00a0notably departed from the herd: “World food prize goes for work on biotech crops”<\/p>\n

Order Clonazepam Online An NPR<\/em> story<\/a>,\u00a0titled “And the Winner of the World Food Prize is…the Man from Monsanto,” generated over 250 comments, of which one reader\u00a0observed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think NPR has figured out that if the word “Monsanto” is in the title of the story, they really don’t need anything else to bring in readers and comments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Order Pregabalin Online Indeed, I think most everyone in media has figured that out. And many of the NPR<\/em> comments are gloriously entertaining, like this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://forgive123.com/steps/ Monsanto, the Great Satan of Agriculture, has been given the World Food Prize?? That’s like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone like Adolf Hitler, or Miss America to Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Lorazepam Online Without Prescription This kind of sentiment is seemingly widespread among GMO opponents, and it’s rather cartoonish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I suspect that the World Food Prize is no less fraught with politics and overt messaging than the Nobel Peace Prize, but if the judges wanted to highlight biotechnology<\/a> this year, then with\u00a0the (deserved<\/a>) inclusion of a Monsanto scientist\u00a0they surely had to know how most of the media would spin the news and how that would be received by all the people who already say GMOs and Monsanto in the same breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m guessing that nobody at Monsanto has ever invoked the adage, “There is is no such thing as bad publicity.” The biotech giant, already a bogeyman\u00a0to the anti-globalization\/anti-corporate\/anti-GMO crowd, has endured a particularly rough PR stretch of late. Last month, protesters from around the globe\u00a0marched against the company. Then came news of\u00a0Monsanto’s “rogue” GMO wheat,… https://theroyalstagproperties.com/about/ Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2709,2724,2830,2967],"tags":[743,1091,1126,1341],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-genetic-engineering","category-gmos","category-monsanto","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-gmos","tag-monsanto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}