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Everyone should be aware of the power and reach of corporate PR spin.
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Books
Beder, S., (1997) Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 288 pp.
Beder, S., (2006) Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Communications, Earthscan, London & Sterling, VA, x + 260 pp.
Burton, B., (2007) Inside Spin: The Dark Underbelly of the PR Industry, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, x + 313 pp.
Dinan, W. and Miller, D. (Eds.), (2007) Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, Pluto Press, London, 296 pp.
Pearse, G., (2007) High & Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future, Penguin, Melbourne, 480 pp.
Hamilton, C., (2007) Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change, Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne, 266 pp.
Stauber, J. and Rampton, S., (1995) Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, Common Courage Press for the Center for Media and Democracy, Monroe, Maine, 236 pp.
Stauber, J. and Rampton, S., (2001) Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Tarcher / Putnam for the Center for Media and Democracy, New York, 359 pp.
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Papers
Union of Concerned Scientists, (2007) "Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science", Cambridge, MA, Union of Concerned Scientists, January, 63 pp.
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Links
PR Watch - Run by the Center for Media & Democracy in Washington DC.
Sourcewatch "is a is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda". Sourcewatch includes a useful Guide for Whistelblowers.
Spinwatch - Concentrating on the UK and Europe.
Center for Public Integrity - "Investigative journalism in the public interest."
Lobbywatch "helps track deceptive PR involving lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists."
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