Toxic Sludge Is Good for You Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry

Name: Toxic Sludge Is Good for You Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
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ISBN: 9781567510607

ISBN-10: 1567510604

ISBN-13: 9781567510607

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Authors: John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, Mark Dowie

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Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire with lobbyists and politicians.

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Publication date: 7/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Torches of Liberty




Burning Books Before They're Printed



The Art of the Hustle and the Science of Propaganda



Smokers' Hacks



Spinning the Atom



Spies For Hire



Divide and Conquer



Poisoning the Grassroots



The Sludge Hits the Fan



Silencing Spring



The Torturers' Lobby



All the News That's Fit to Print



Taking Back Your Own Backyard


App. PR Industry Leaders


App. The Clorox PR Crisis Plan


Suggested Reading


Notes


Index