PR Watch, First Quarter 2004, Volume 11, No. 1

10 Years of PR Watch

This year, the Center for Media & Democracy celebrates ten years of exposing manipulative and deceptive corporate and government public relations.

How Now, Mad Cow?

Mad Cow Disease

by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

Common Courage Press has just released the paperback version of our 1997 book, Mad Cow USA--the book that predicted the emergence of the deadly human and animal dementia disease in the United States.

Where's the (BSE-free) Beef?

Mad Cow Disease

by Diane Farsetta

International and domestic consumers want it. Meat packers want it. Producers are willing to offer it, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says no one can get it unless and until they decide otherwise.

The controversial product? U.S.