PR Watch
PR Watch, a quarterly publication of the Center for Media & Democracy, is dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. It serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices. It specializes in blowing the lid off today's multi-billion dollar propaganda-for-hire industry, naming names and revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony 'grassroots' front groups, spy on citizens, and conspire with lobbyists and politicians to thwart democracy. We expose the hidden activities of secretive, little-known mega-firms such as Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller and Ketchum PR--the "invisible men" who control our political debates and public opinion, twisting reality and protecting the powerful from scrutiny.
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Volume 13
- Flack Attack
- Still Not The News: Second CMD Investigation Reveals TV Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs
- CMD's VNR Catches: Four Case Studies
- Congresspedia Keeps Growing (And Now It's Your Turn!)
- Reviews and Interviews about "The Best War Ever"
- Catching Up With Eric Schlosser: A CMD Interview
- Fast Food Nation: the Movie
- Mortality Combat: The War Over Counting the Dead in Iraq
- Saving General Washington
- Fake TV News: Executive Summary
- Flack Attack
- The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq
- Fake TV News: Findings - Prescription Strength Spin
- Fake TV News: Findings - Advice from a Store-Bought Expert
- CMD in the News
- Fake TV News: Findings -- Corporations
- Televison Stations Respond . . . And it's Worse Than You Think
- Congresspedia: Citizen Journalists Take On Congress
- Congresspedia, We Needia
Volume 12
- Flack Attack
- (Un)Safe, (Un)Secure, and (Not)Vital: Marketing a Nuclear Power Plant
- Spinning Nuclear Power into Green
- 'No Dark Machiavellian Conspiracy' for New British Nuke Plants
- In Their Own Words: Nuclear PR Case Study
- Tsunami Washes Away Indonesian Human Rights
- The Fix Behind Fixing Social Security
- From "Disinfopedia" to "SourceWatch"
- Ch-ch-ch-changes: The World of PR Industry News
- Center for Media and Democracy in the News
Volume 11
- Flack Attack
- On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're an Underdog
- From Flying Toasters to Cyber Voters
- Howard Dean: The Scream Heard Around the World
- Moving America One Step Forward And Two Steps Back
- CMD Celebrates 10 Years!
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation: the think-tank breeders
- Atlas Offspring Used U.S. Funds to Oppose Chávez
Volume 10
- Flack Attack
- What is the "Disinfopedia"?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Getting Started on Disinfopedia
- Water Environment Federation
- Industry-funded organizations
- Citizens for Better Medicare
- How to Research Front Groups
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
- Think Tanks
- American Enterprise Institute
- Help Peel the Banana Republicans
Volume 8
- Flack Attack
- Spy TV: Just Who is the Digital TV Revolution Overthrowing?
- A Dumbed-Down Version of the Internet
- Boob Tube Babies: How I-TV Reinvents "Fun" for Children
- Fired Fox-TV Journalists Win Goldman Environmental Prize
- PR Watch Website Launches "Spin of the Day"
- WPP: World Propaganda Power
- Craig Shirley Does the Disabled
Volume 7
- Flack Attack
- Targeting Children: Industry's Campaign to Redefine Environmental Education
- Will CFA Save GM Foods?
- Catching Flack: A Canadian PR Man Spills the Beans
- Confessions of a Spin Doctor
- Further Adventures of a Public Relations Turncoat
- Survey Shows Most PR People Still Won't Admit Lying
- Facts Not Fear Wants to Make the World Safe for Styrofoam
- Cool vs. Old School: Public Relations Faces the Information Age
- Flack Attack
- Secrets and Lies: How Shandwick PR Tried to Destroy the Rainforests of New Zealand
- When Helicopters Attack: A Near Accident Leads To Coverup
- Shandwick's Story: From Good-for-Nothing to Global Threat
- Building Bridges and Splitting Greens
- Erasing the Writing on the Wall: Timberlands Censors Its Critics
- Shandwick Takes Aim at a Goldman Prizewinner
Volume 6
- Flack Attack
- Through the Revolving Door: From Greenpeace to Big Business
- Palese Says Beder Was "Outdated, Incorrect and Unworthy"
- OCA Spokesperson Says Beder Was Wrong
- Thorstensen Says Beder Was Bitter
- Facts vs. Factoids: Sharon Beder Responds
- From Green Warriors to Greenwashers
- Mining PR Exec Lauds Peter Sandman
- Flack Attack
- Advice on Making Nice: Peter Sandman Plots to Make You a Winner
- Some Clients of Peter Sandman
- Chilling and Gassing with the Environmental Defense Fund
- Community Advisory Panels: Corporate Cat Herding
- Mad as Hell? This Program May Have Your Number
- Packaging the Beast: A Public Relations Lesson in Type Casting
Volume 4
- Flack Attack
- Swallowing Anything: The Hype Behind Alternative Remedies
- Did "Rejuvenation" Therapy Kill George Balanchine?
- Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?
- Defending Hot Air: TASSC Takes On Global Warming
- Columbia Books Publishes Resources for Flack Trackers
- Infocom Helps Flacks to Help Themselves
- Flack Attack
- Shut Up and Eat: The Beef Industry's Lawsuit Against Oprah Winfrey
- "Intolerable" Speech? What Howard Lyman Told Oprah
- They Said, He Said: Why the Judge Ruled for McDonald's
- SLAPP Happy: Corporations That Sue to Shut You Up
- One Bad Apple? Facts and Myths Behind the "Alar Scare"
- Sludge Backs Up: Merco's SLAPP Suit Fails in Texas
- Flack Attack
- They're Rich, They're Powerful and They're Running Scared
- Risky Business: The World According to Hill & Knowlton
- Big Brother Gets Wired: The Dark Side of the Internet
- China's Corporate Friends in High (and Low) Places
- Mandarins and Moguls Unite for China's Most-Favored Nation Initiative
- Flacks in Florida: PAC Member Consulting Firms
Volume 3
- Flack Attack
- Women and Children First: On the Front Line of the Chlorine War
- Behind Enemy Lines
- MBD Update and Analysis for Chlorine Chemistry Council, 5/18/94
- MBD "Activist Report" for August, 1994
- MBD: Mission Despicable
- Letter and Survey from MBD to the Wilderness Society
- The Wilderness Society's Answer to MBD
- Race-baiting Strategy Helps Keep Shell Pumping in Nigeria
- Flack Attack
- Apocalypse Cow: U.S. Denials Deepen Mad Cow Danger
- USDA's PR Strategy
- A Decade of Denial: Chronology of the Mad Cow Cover-Up
- Rendering: the "Invisible Industry" Gets a Green Facelift
- PR Watch Reviews BSE-related Resources on the Internet
- Confidence Game: Burson-Marsteller's PR Plan for Silicone Breast Implants
- Science Under Pressure: Dow-Funded Studies Say 'No Problem!'
- Beauty and the Breast: How Industry Sold Implants to Women
Volume 1
- Flack Attack
- Smokers' Hacks: the Tobacco Lobby's PR Front Groups
- Three out of Four Flacks Agree: No Ifs About Butts
- PR's "Smart Environmentalism"
- Book Review
- Smoke and Mirrors: How Tobacco and PR Grew Up Together
- Hustling for the Junta: PR Fights Democracy in Haiti
- Monsanto Hijacks Safe Food Coalition
- Hill & Knowlton Uses Environmentalists to Peddle Coppertone™
- Sound Bites Back





