The Sarah Palin Big Oil Book Big Marketing Blitzkrieg
Posted by: grant in Politics, Sarah Palin, tags: Big Oil, Environmental Studies, PNA Publishing, Sarah PalinDigg Me!
Say that five times fast and then imagine my surprise when my little Sarah Palin article got such an immediate response, and in the form of an advertisement no less! (see comment #1 in Sarah Palin’s Big Book Deal ).
Unbeknownst to me, there will soon be a ‘tell-all’ book entitled “Sarah Takes on Big Oil” hitting the stands. Boy, gosh, do I ever know about it now. The advertising wing of the publisher was kind enough to correct my oversight and plug the book in a comment.
What I found interesting is that this book is being published by none other than a group called 108 Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska, a division of PNA publishing (Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska).
My question to the blogoshpere: is this as bad as it sounds? Is this the Petroleum Industry rewriting history to give a Green tint to a vice presidential candidate? All comments and/or information welcome!
October 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I am one of the authors of “Sarah takes on Big Oil.” Your question is a good one. At first glance a company with the name “Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska LLC” appears to have industry connections. We do not. Petroleum News is the main publication that Anchorage-based Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska owns. Kristen Nelson and I are editors at the weekly newspaper (www.petroleumnews.com). None of the newspaper’s writers are allowed to work for the oil and gas industry in any way. Our readers are largely people in the industry and government, although a number of green groups subscribe, too, presumably to keep up on what is happening in the industry. Our company is mainly owned by members of my family and employees. We take a lot of pride in being independent and offer very balanced coverage. General newspapers, such as the Anchorage Daily News, pick up a lot of our articles. Some of the people in the oil industry in Alaska will not like our book, even though we were careful to tell their side of the story, as well as Sarah Palin’s. We did not present her as an environmentalist, although she leans in that direction SOME of the time. We concentrated on her battle with the three largest oil producers in Alaska (BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil) over the proposed gas pipeline and a raise in oil production taxes. It was colorful, to say the least. While I admire Palin and have observed her behave in a way I wish more politicians behaved, I am voting for Obama.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
You write very well.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Palin’s a good looking woman, but I think looks alone aren’t really enough to qualify you as the leader of the free world. An a non-american, I’m glad that the republicans got beat, I have no real issue with McCain, but god forbid something should happen to him and Palin ends up the most powerful person on the planet!