Recently the Center's John Stauber had lunch with journalist Laurel Wellman to discuss the Center's prescient 1997 book by Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Mad Cow USA. The resulting column in today's San Francisco Chronicle notes that in the month after December's discovery of a mad cow in Washington state, 80,000 people downloaded Mad Cow USA for free off of our website.

Our organization, the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of our founding with a party on Friday, June 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Madison, Wisconsin. Our very special guest will be Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Please join our staff, board and scores of supporters for an evening of great food and fellowship. Tickets are $50/person. If you live far from Madison you can still join us in spirit.

Popular Science writer William Weed "spent a day ... recording every scientific claim he encountered in stores, in ads, in newspapers and on TV, radio and the internet. Then he enlisted experts to help him evaluate their veracity." He concluded, "A good number were patently false. ...