Still playing football for the lobby team at the age of 103.
Coulson leant heavily on his lobby team at the News of the World, and does not claim to be a deep political thinker.
The corporation has also been criticised, although not by the Tories, for failing to promote enough female faces to its lobby team – Robinson was made political editor in 2005 despite a strong challenge from Martha Kearney, then doing the same job at Newsnight.
Last week, a Filipino parliamentarian publicly urged President Benigno Aquino III to dispatch "a strong lobby team" in Washington to stop the bill in its tracks, warning that it would "kill" the industry in the Philippines.
Google and Facebook recently bolstered their lobbying teams.
Clear messaging from the top should start to address the huge dissonance between a company's publicly-stated views on climate change and the actions of its lobbying teams, which are often seeking to repress new legislation.
"The core image of John McCain is as a reformer in Washington — and the more dominant the story is about the lobbying teams around him, the more you put that into question," said Terry Nelson, who was Mr. McCain's campaign manager until he left in a shake-up last fall.
(See "Fisker Automotive Gets Crucial Funding").. "The well-connected guys with the lobbying teams got the loan guarantees," Bernsten said.
The company has hired high-powered public relations and lobbying teams to steer Unocal shareholders, regulatory bodies, legislators and the media away from the notion that the proposed deal is an attempt by the Chinese government to deprive the U.S. of vital energy resources.
The climate campaign of 2009-2010 didn't lack for corporate boosters, lobbying teams nor policy analysts.
The federal proposal has caught the attention of those governments, with both Indian and Filipino officials suggesting they would dispatch lobbying teams to Washington.
