Janine Jackson, CounterSpin, 3-2-2018: When you hear the name of a court case -- Smith v. Jones -- there's a tendency to look for a story, a particular story, about Smith, and Jones, and which of them -- given the details -- seems most justified.
July 31, 2017: WNYC-The Takeaway: Thousands of pages of documents compiled from lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Air Force are now in the public domain. Through the work of a project called the Poison Papers, under the Center for Media and Democracy, the collection is online and, according to the people who published them, they reveal years of apparent collusion between chemical companies and regulatory agencies.
7-13-2017 Background Briefing with Ian Masters: ... [W]e examine further what looks like a massive cover-up by the Trump Administration of a brazen Russian money laundering scheme that the Attorney General Jeff Sessions settled at a huge loss after Donald Trump had fired the U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case, using the firing of all of the U.S. Attorneys as a cover at the time.
May 12, 2017: Mary Bottari, from the Center for Media and Democracy, will tell us how her organization uncovered secret documents, from the right-wing Bradley Foundation, describing the game plan to defund and dismantle unions.
Podcast provided courtesy of The Ring of Fire Network.
May 12, 2017: Mary Bottari, from the Center for Media and Democracy, will tell us how her organization uncovered secret documents, from the right-wing Bradley Foundation, describing the game plan to defund and dismantle unions.
Podcast provided courtesy of The Ring of Fire Network.
May 12, 2017: We welcome the Center for Media and Democracy's Deputy Director, Mary Bottari to discuss their extensive investigation into the Bradley Foundation's "weaponized philanthropy." New recently released information reveals in tremendous detail how the Bradley Foundation has spent hundreds of millions in tax deductible money to build a huge partisan apparatus across the country molded on what they have already done to Wisconsin.
The Matthew Filipowicz Show, December 7, 2016: Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy discusses Donald Trump's frightening choice to head the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, as well as a disturbing Trump climate change memo.
NPR, Marketplace Morning Report, November 21, 2016: There are concerns about ethics and propriety after Donald Trump met last week with three business partners from India. The three are involved with Trump Tower Mumbai, a luxury apartment complex that bears the Trump name, and they've told Indian media that they hope to do more business with the Trumps. The meeting raised questions about the fact that Trump still hasn't agreed to put a wall between himself and his global business holdings, which include operations in at least 18 countries.
January 4, 2016: A Public Affair—Patty Peltekos and the Center for Media and Democracy's Lisa Graves reflect on the media in 2015 and discuss the nature of large corporate media entities.
July 7, 2015, The BradCast: The Center for Media and Democracy's General Counsel, Brendan Fischer, talks to Brad Friedman about Scott Walker's blatant attempt over the July 4th holiday to gut Wisconsin's Open Records law. Fischer explained, "This was an effort by Walker and some Republicans in the legislature to undermine open govenment in the dead of night."
Sunday Edition, May 31, 2015
One of the most influential political organizations in the United States, is the American Legislative Exchange Council -- known as ALEC. It is an alliance of elected politicians and corporate bigwigs. It has been exerting its influence on the political landscape since its beginnings more than four decades ago.
In a new interview with Charles Margulis at the Center for Environmental Health John Stauber--the founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, which publishes PRWatch.org--discusses "toxic flame retardants" and the 20th anniversary of the publication of his classic expose of the public relations industry, "Toxic Sludge Is Good for You."
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