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Polluting the Airwaves 

Should campaign consultants be able to serve two masters? Nation Editor Katrina van den Heuvel says no:

"My colleague Ari Berman has done more than any journalist to shine some light on how pollster-strategist Mark Penn, head honcho at PR giant Burson-Marsteller, and perhaps the most important figure in Hillary Clinton's campaign, poses a real dilemma for the candidate. Penn heads a firm that has represented everyone from union busters to big tobacco, and more recently Blackwater. (According to a Marsteller spokesperson, it was a subsidiary, BKSH & Associates, run by GOP operative Charlie Black, which helped Erik Prince prepare for congressional hearings after his employees killed civilians in Iraq).

"It would seem difficult to find a more controversial client than Blackwater but Penn's firm has just been retained by Spin Master.

"It turns out that Spin Master distributes Aqua Dots

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