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Lies, Damn Lies & Public Relations
John Stauber
Public relations is a multi-billion dollar industry. There are now more PR agents than working journalists, and the gap is widening as Madison Avenue continues to expand. PR wizards sometimes not only spin the news but actually invent it. They organize campaigns to influence public opinion and shape legislation that benefits their corporate patrons.
Mad Cow USA
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton
Mad cow disease. Could the nightmare happen here? Since its outbreak in Britain, concerns have arisen about the disease spreading to the United States. Although Europe has banned most of the feeding practices linked to mad cow, animal cannibalism—the feeding of animal remains to animals—continues more extensively in the U.S. than anywhere in the world. […]
Man Made Language
Dale Spender
In Man Made Language, Dale Spender writes, “Women are aware that male superiority is a myth and they deal with this knowledge in numerous ways. Their response may range from disillusionment to elation, from masking their feelings to hide their disappointment and preserve the myth, to outrightly declaring their knowledge in an attempt to explode it. […]
Energy, Environment and the Media
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr looks at how the media are able and unable to direct public attention to energy and environmental issues. Schorr traces the changes that have occurred in media coverage of and public interest and concern in conservation, oil, pollution, etc. He also discusses the domestic political climate which like the global one has undergone […]
Media and Politics
Daniel Schorr
Orwellian Media
Norman Solomon
George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, wrote that “political speech is largely the defense of the indefensible and consists of euphemisms, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.” Newspeak was the official language of 1984. It was designed, “to diminish the range of thought.” Today, the media saturate us with terms that would have […]
The Orchestration of News
Norman Solomon
Surveys and polls indicate that few institutions are as distrusted and disliked as the media. Many people, without knowing the details, sense that what they see, hear and read is orchestrated. Recorded at Black Oak Bookstore.
False Hope: The Politics of Clinton
Norman Solomon
After twelve years of Reagan and Bush, some people were hoping the election of Bill Clinton would represent positive change. He was, after all, a new Democrat. He wouldn’t kowtow to corporate lobbyists. He would break the bureaucratic gridlock in Washington. So far, President Clinton, with a few exceptions, has not significantly departed from his […]
The Economics of Greed
Holly Sklar
The dramatic growth in income inequality and wealth is a defining feature of this era. Wages are stagnant, workers are laid off, profits zoom, CEOs rake in millions and the stock market soars. The economics of greed prevails. How does it happen? Holly Sklar explains how the political economy really works and what can be […]
Scapegoating the Poor
Holly Sklar
Scapegoating is a classic technique of manipulation and control. It deflects attention from those who benefit from the economic system. Right-wing politicians rail against welfare queens. Their counterparts on radio talk shows target the poor for causing economic decline. One thing is certain, there are serious problems, but scapegoating doesn’t explain them. The economy has […]
Wealth, Poverty and Power
Holly Sklar
In the 1980s, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. That’s a fact, not a slogan. The decade of greed saw the greatest accumulation of wealth in history. According to Forbes, the conservative magazine, the combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans increased three times. A Brookings study showed that the top […]
The Slow Death of the American Dream
Holly Sklar

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