Do you believe Halliburton is a familiar name to most Americans?

[Toots]

And if so, is it held in scorn or with respect? I mean to me Halliburton is at the bottom of almost everything, yet they try and hide it....

[sam sarrha]

1. no no and no one has any idea cause the same type's own ALL the so called MEDIA

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Ranked Worst in Recent Poll

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:_QVcSVZ2nc0J:money.cnn.com/2007/01/31/news/companies/bc.reputations.microsoft.reut/index.htm%3Fpostversion%3D2007013109+halliburton+corporate+reputation&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

- Dave

[skipos]

3. No. I don't totally blame MSM either.

Most Americans don't dig to deep for news nowadays.

[ClassWarrior]

7. First of all, there's nothing "mainstream" about them...

And second of all, I blame the Corporate Media and their tabloid reporting for the fact that most Americans aren't curious about what's important these days.

NGU.

[skipos]

9. The chicken or the egg?

What came 1st, America's disinterest in real news, or MSM's lack of reporting of real news?

Since 45% of America wasn't inspired enough to choose between candidates as different as Nixon and McGovern in 1972, which was long before MSM started sucking so badly, I'd say Americans are more to blame. MSM just gives them what they want.

[johnaries]

4. NO. Every time I mention Halliburton to someone they just stare.

They have no clue.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

5. No- but getting more familiar as days go on

:hi:

[badgerpup]

6. Halliburton. Brown Root Kellog. Nike. Bechtel. Diebold

These names have become chained together in my head- summon one, you get them all. I know there are more going to be adding themselves to this List Of Shame.

Gee, I wonder why...:sarcasm:

[Subdivisions]

8. (Kellogg) Brown & Root fired my dad when he was a

welding/pipefitter inspector at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Station in Glen Rose, Texas. His job was to inspect (using x-ray technology as well as visual) and certify the welds that join the piping carrying radioactive steam through the plant as safe.

On a routine inspection of about 300 feet of pipe, he found that the welds were pitted and therefore failed them. He was ordered by KBR to pass the welds anyway as tearing out the pipe and re-doing it would not be cost-effective. He, of course, refused. Afterall, the liability for fraudulently passing this sort of inspection is absolute and the penalties could wreck his, and his family's, life.

So, he was conveniently released from his employ after 22 years. He testified to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission but as far as I can tell, nothing ever came from it. That was nearly twenty years ago.

Today, despite their criminal acts, no one on the street seems to know any more about KBR or Halliburton than they did back then. When I bring up Halliburton, most folks say "Oh, yeah, that's the oilfield products place there on I-35 south of Ft Worth." To which I reply, "Yeah, that's it."

People just have no clue.