“Bad reporter! Bad!!” It’s very amusing how KBR sends out these “Media Advisories” preparing employees for the “impending attack of reporters”. Those crafty underhanded tricksters! Out to extract KBR’s sin and secrets from the innocent unsuspecting KBR employee! KBR makes these reporters sound like a seductive band of traveling Gypsies.
I also find it humorous how KBR crafts their memos to appear as if KBR HQ/Corporate has the best interest of the employee at heart. Stating they can not be forced to talked to the media. Then in the next breath stating it is against company policy to talk to the media without prior approval. So even if a KBR employee desperately wanted to talk to the media they are intimidated into silence. I would like to report that this is a corporate tactic unique to KBR but it’s not. Most corporations who have something to hide employ this method of attempting to control the media. Thank goodness it doesn’t seem to be working! Keep that information coming!
Below is a memo that was just sent out today Friday 8/27/2010 @ 9:22 AM
TO: LOGCAP IV CTP employees at JBB
FROM: Floyd Driver, CTP Task Order Manager
SUBJECT: Media Advisory – Public Affairs Media DayToday, the 103rd ESC’s Public Affairs Office (PAO) is hosting a Media Day. Media representatives will be escorted by PAO officers to CTP work locations located on Joint Base Balad.
KBR’s public relations policy requires that all employees refer “all written or oral inquiries from individuals external to the KBR corporate Public Relations department.” CTP’s regional contact for Public Affairs inquiries is the LOGCAP IV Project Management Office (PMO). If you are approached by the media, politely and firmly respond: “I am not the appropriate media contact for KBR. Please contact LOGCAP IV Operations Managers, Sarah UiMhuirgheasa at 713.753-4264 or Cam White at 713-970-9690.” You may also provide the requestor with our email addresses.
CTP employees are only allowed to give media interviews after securing advanced approval from corporate communications via LOGCAP IV PMO. Notify your supervisor immediately if your are approached with requests for information or comments and/or photographed or videotaped during a Media Day visit to your work area. If a media representative tells you that a question is “off the record,” “on background,” or “for research” the information will likely still be used. The same guidance applies even if the media is accompanied by a military PAO.
If approached by a media representative, remember the following points –
- Find out who you’re talking to before engaging in a conversation. Most media won’t identify themselves until you ask. Don’t be afraid to start off the conversation with “Who are you?” Check his/her credentials. Report their name and media affiliation to your supervisor.
- If the individual is not escorted by PAO and there is not a standard or routine need for access to your work area or service facility, then s/he should be escorted off the work site by KBR.
- Always remember an employee cannot be forced into talking to the media.
Reference corporate policy (P-GL-KBR-COM-0801, dated April 5, 2007), “All types of Media Contact are coordinated through the Corporate Communications Department, the CEO of the Company, or Company Executives. Other employees refer inquiries from media companies, organizations or representatives to Corporate Communications and obtain approval of Director of Corporate Communications before responding to Media Contact on behalf of the Company. Media Contact includes such events as interviews, press events, media alerts, media tours, and roundtable discussions.”
Floyd Driver
LOGCAP IV
CTP Task Order Manager
KBR, Inc.
APO AE 09391
Office: 281-669-XXXX
I wonder what they would do if all of the corruption, Fraud, Waste and Abuse were spread to Fox News? I wish I still had some of the documentation from when I worked there but when they took my corporate computer I lost all of my juicy material.
They would hired more attorneys and Heather Browne would have to hire an assistant prevaricator to work with her!
I would be happy to provide anyone in media any answers
Do I have questions for you!
If only Ms Sparky could get HER journalists’ credentials and travel to interview these folks! Oh, how fun would that be to watch…
Hmmm! Interesting thought!
This just in:
From: Timmy Doster
Sent: Sat 8/28/2010 3:23 PM
To: DL_KBR LOGCAP III All Hands ME
Subject: Personnel Annoucement – Scott Goeke – Theater Director of Media Relations
PERSONNEL ANNOUNCEMENT
The Principal Program Manager is pleased to announce K. Scott Goeke has been promoted to the position of Theater Director of Media Relations for LOGCAP III Middle East, with an effective date of Sept. 4, 2010. He is currently the Senior Media Relations Coordinator at LOGCAP III headquarters. Scott will replace Dean Hockney, who is departing the project after nearly six years to return to his home in Indiana and resume his career as a sports writer.
Scott arrived on the project in August 2005, serving as an Operations Coordinator in Kandahar, Afghanistan. After assignments in Sharana and Camp Dubbs, he was promoted to Senior Operations Coordinator and transferred to COS Marez/COS Diamondback in Iraq. He arrived at LOGCAP III headquarters in July 2009 in his current assignment.
Scott retired from the U.S. Army in October 2002 as a Public Affairs Officer. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas – El Paso, and is a graduate of the Department of Defense Information School. When stateside, he resides in Lake Benton, Minn.
Scott’s extensive media relations and public affairs background will continue to be an asset for the entire LOGCAP III project.
Congratulations Scott.
Jeff Rock
Chief of Staff
KBR, Inc.
Please have Scott contact his brother, as indicated. thanks, Kevin
ps – congrats scott on continued advancement with kbr
Please till Scott congratutations on his promotion
and the best of luck in 2011!
Miss moneypenny.
KBR is so afraid of the media that they told us repeatedly not to say a thing. There would be dire consquences. Last 2 weeks, there have been bunch of media here. KBR wants to control the message.
I can’t see where it would be a problem unless they had a lot to hide!
Wow I wish I was still in Iraq so I could just spill out all of my inside knowlege of what KBR has done wrong over the 7 years that I was there. Maybe the local media would like to hear from me. LOL
I can hook you up! And you can start right here!
Sparky you have the most diverse group of HATERS this side of the Mississippi. I guess your fans have nothing else better to do but to be a KBR HATER. Cap IV you wish you were still in Iraq you are not so spill the beans sir LOL. See how quick Sparky recruited you to be a HATER. Sparky a reporter? Please do that Sparky so you can freeze like you did on that talk show when you had your 2 minutes of glory
K-Sniper aka Buca777 aren’t you hateful today. Is there a shortage of “KBR Kool-aid”? Got the “DT’s”?