] Dr Pepper/Seven Up was hoping a novel Internet campaign
] would generate buzz about its new flavoured milk drink,
] Raging Cow.
]
] Instead, consumers are raging about the company's
] marketing tactics, labelling the effort "shady" and
] "immoral." Some are calling for a boycott of the product,
] just as it is being rolled out to U.S. stores

Dr Pepper/Seven Up cowed by Web plan

] Wireless phone maker Motorola and music programmer MTV
] International on Wednesday said they struck an alliance
] that seeks to turn teenagers' mobile phone screens into a
] hip broadcast medium.
]
] "We are creating mobile music," Geoffrey Frost, global
] head of marketing for Motorola, told a news conference at
] the CeBit electronics trade show in Hannover, Germany.
]
] "What we are looking at is extending the MTV channel to
] the one thing that doesn't sit in your living room and on
] your desk," he said.

Motorola wants its MTV on cell phones | CNET News.com

] U.S. Foodservice, which is engulfed in an accounting
] scandal, has threatened legal action against an
] elementary-school teacher who runs a Web site for posting
] negative comments about the company and for asking its
] employees to forward internal documents for distribution
] to the news media.
]
] As a result, Steve Hoschler, who has operated
] www.foodservicerumors.com for five years, Thursday
] "temporarily" removed the "news and comment" section from
] the site. "We do not think that we have provided anything
] other than a forum for freedom of expression," Mr.
] Hoschler stated on his Web site.

U.S. Foodservice Threatens Action Against Web Site

] France's staunch opposition to war may mean French fries
] have been wiped off the menu in some US restaurants, but
] President Jacques Chirac is not without fans on the other
] side of the Atlantic.
]
] The town of Carrboro in the southern state of North
] Carolina decided it was time someone fought in the French
] corner after a local Republican succeeded in
] rechristening French fries "freedom fries" and French
] toast "freedom toast" in House of Representatives
] restaurants.
]
] The town's council, or Board of Aldermen, have passed a
] resolution declaring April "French trade month", and will
] be encouraging residents to buy as many French products
] as they can all month in protest at the action.

'Freedom fries' lambasted in US

] If you%u2019re sick of all-talk AM radio, scratchy static
] or shortwave signals that sound like they%u2019re being
] sent from Mars, take heart. Just like television, radio
] is going digital. But lines are being drawn in a battle
] between the U.S. choice and the standard set for the rest
] of the world.

Radio is going digital

] The City Council in the place hit hardest by the Sept. 11
] attacks approved a resolution Wednesday opposing war with
] Iraq except as a last resort.
]
]
] The 31-17 vote came after months of debate over whether
] New York should stake out a position.
]
]
] "If we're going to be looking for a fight, let's fight
] poverty, let's fight firehouse closures, let's fight
] racism and sexism," said Yvette Clarke, a Democrat who
] supported the resolution.
]
]
] Democrat Alan Jennings said that after losing one of his
] closest friends in the World Trade Center attack, he was
] in no mood to vote for an anti-war measure.

New York City Council approves resolution opposing Iraq war until options exhausted

] Beth Sanders took a stand for free speech a few weeks ago
] while she waited at Westlake Center for the Monorail. And
] it meant security guards accosted her, then banned her
] from the center.
]
] Sanders says Westlake security guards evicted her because
] she refused to lower a peace sign near a packed Monorail
] platform.
]
] Now she and other civil rights activists plan to
] challenge the center's policy that bars entrance to those
] carrying political signs.
]
] They also are challenging the line that separates
] Westlake Park outside the center, where free speech
] flourishes, and inside the center, which is private
] property whose owners can restrict free speech.

Westlake gag order raises outcries of protest

] The Pledge of Allegiance is back in play. Just when it
] appeared that a federal appeals court might reconsider
] its ruling that use of the Pledge of Allegiance in public
] schools is unconstitutional, it instead affirmed the
] decision.
]
] The decision last June by a three-judge panel caused a
] firestorm of controversy and led the 24 judges of the 9th
] U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider whether to take
] a second look at the case before an "en banc" court. This
] larger court would have consisted of 11 judges.

The Pledge of Allegiance: one nation, truly divided 03/12/03

] ABC television network, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co.,
] plans to launch a 24-hour news service on Wednesday that
] will be available only to broadband Internet users, the
] Wall Street Journal reported.
]
]
] The newspaper said, according to ABC News officials, the
] new service -- whose launch coincides with escalating
] television-news competition amid the looming Iraq (news -
] web sites) war -- will carry live feeds of breaking news
] with some anchored coverage.
]
] It will also feature news summaries every half hour and
] rebroadcasts.
]
] The online "channel" will initially be available to
] subscribers to the existing ABC News On Demand broadband
] service, which lets users who pay $4.95 a month view
] taped ABC News clips and programs, the Journal said.

ABC Starts 24/7 Internet-Based News Channel--WSJ

] The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings
] changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in
] a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the
] country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.
]
] Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom
] toast."

CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french fries' and 'french toast' - Mar. 12, 2003