Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy ─ Coporate PR And the Assault on Democracy

ISBN13：9780745324449
出版社：Pluto Press
作者：William Dinan (EDT); David Miller (EDT)
裝訂／頁數：平裝／296頁
規格：21.6cm*13.3cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
出版日：2007/06/11
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Bringing together leading activists and writers from the US and beyond, this book unmasks the covert and undemocratic world of corporate spin.

Wherever big business is threatened, spin doctors, lobbyists, think tanks and front groups are on hand to push the corporate interest, often at the public's expense.

The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip. The authors show how PR techniques are in use across a wide range of political fields, driven by corporate interests. They reveal the secrets of the PR trade including deception, the use of fake "institutes", spying and dirty tricks. The impact can be devastating—when the public is denied access to the truth, the results are rising inequality and environmental catastrophe.

The book exposes the misdeeds of famous companies including BP, Coca Cola, British Aerospace, Exxon and Monsanto. It also reveals startling new information about the covert funding of various apparently independent think tanks and institutes.

What can we do about it? The authors offer a guide to concrete campaigns that will help to roll back corporate power and show us how to raise awareness about resisting deceptive PR.

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William Dinan is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at Strathclyde University, specialising in corporate PR and lobbying. He is a co-founder of www.spinwatch.org.

David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography & Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. He has previously edited Arguments Against G8 and Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq for Pluto Press. He is a co-founder of www.spinwatch.org.

Contributors include: Bob Burton (journalist, author and editor of SourceWatch), William Clark (Strathclyde University), Aeron Davis (author of Public Relations Democracy), Chris Grimshaw (Corporate Watch), Andy Higginbottom (Kingston University, London), Olivier Hoedemann (Corporate Europe Observatory), Eveline Lubbers (investigative reporter, activist, and co-founder of Spinwatch.org), Jonathan Matthews (founder of GM Watch and Lobbywatch), Laura Miller (Center for Media and Democracy and editor of PR Watch Quarterly), Ulrich Mueller (founder of LobbyControl), Andy Rowell (investigative journalist, author and co-founder of Spinwatch.org), Leslie Sklair (London School of Economics), Gerald Sussman (Portland State University), Granville Williams (University of Huddersfield & Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom).