Robin Raskin Puts Fake News in Perspective
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Robin RaskinIn his new book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, Farhad Manjoo covers video news releases (VNRs) by looking a
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Teaching College Kids to Lie
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Additional details have surfaced about the story we mentioned last month regarding a corporate-sponsored hoax at Hunter College. The college receives donations from the Coach Corporation, a manufacturer of handbags, shoes and other women's accessories.
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Global Warming Hurts Our Feelings
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"A pair of agriculture groups has temporarily suspended about $1.5 million in grants to the University of Minnesota to protest a controversial study by U scientists earlier this month about biofuels and global warming," reports Tom Meersman.
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A 'Humanitarian Campaign' to Sell Bottled Water
Submitted by Anne Landman on
As more major U.S.
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Monsanto-Funded Front Group Fights Milk Labeling
Submitted by Anne Landman on
A new "grassroots" farmers' group with close ties to Monsanto has been formed to outlaw labels that would notify consumers they are buying milk from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Monsanto genetically engineers rBGH, called Posilac, which is injected into cows, forcing them to produce more milk.
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When "Biased" Means "Not Friendly to Industry"
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The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed a top scientist from her position as chair of a panel investigating a toxic material in electronics.
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The Money Behind the Climate Change Skeptics Conference
Submitted by Anne Landman on
An article in the Independent links funding for the "2008 International Conference on Climate Change" held in New York earlier this month to tobacco and oil companies.
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Group Blogging for the Man (and Fleishman-Hillard)
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Under the banner "a marketplace of ideas," major industry groups are blogging together, to "build influence and drive policy." The BizCentral blog includes the American Petroleum Institute, Business Roundtable,
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Few Scientists Warm to Skeptics Conference
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Heartland Institute's "2008 International Conference on Climate Change" in New York was "a sort of global warming doppelganger conference, where everything was reversed," reports Juliet Eilperin.
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Anti-Taxation with Tobacco Representation
Submitted by Anne Landman on
R.J. Reynolds (RJR) may be funding a South Carolina anti-tax group to oppose a cigarette tax for health care. The Cover Carolina Collaborative, a group of health care organizations, is proposing that the state's tax be raised to $1.00 a pack, to help cover uninsured employees. South Carolina currently has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation, at seven cents a pack.
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