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Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine

Beau Hodai, Lisa Graves, PR Watch. February 7, 2012.

A new investigation shows the global chemical company spent millions spinning news coverage and tracking journalists as concern grew over potential health risks of atrazine.

Did You Fall for It? America's Outrage Over TSA Naked Body Scanners Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing

Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, AlterNet. April 28, 2011.

The right fears nothing more than unionized workers, and found a cunning way to scapegoat workers to derail a campaign to organize the TSA.

Obama's Pentagon Rebrands Iraq War, Rolls Out PR Offensive in Afghanistan

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. February 20, 2010.

The new PR campaign has all the qualities of a George Orwell novel. Perhaps 'Operation Imperial Sunset' is a more appropriate name.

Why Do Airstrikes in Afghanistan Keep Killing Exactly 30 People?

Megan Carpentier, Air America. December 11, 2009.

Pentagon policy from the Rumsfeld days on acceptable kill rates still seems to be the guiding logic for what field commanders are telling the news media.

Why Is a Slate Writer Shilling for Goldman Sachs? Taibbi Shreds the Latest Wall Street PR

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. July 31, 2009.

The winner of this month's Most Retarded Horsesh** Written In Defense of Goldman Sachs award goes to ... Heidi Moore. .

Chamber of Commerce Admits They Accept Bailout Money to Fund Anti-Worker Ads

Adam Green, Open Left. April 14, 2009.

The Chamber is using taxpayer money to fund ads against workers in political swing states.

Is Corporate Greenwashing Headed for a Fall?

Phil Mattera, Corporate Research Project. February 12, 2008.

Fear not global warming, peak oil, polluted air and water -- big business will take care of everything.

Announcing the 2007 Falsie Awards for the Biggest Fraudsters in the Media

Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. December 7, 2007.

Draw up your chair and prepare to be both amused and dismayed. The winners of the Center for Media and Democracy's 2007 Falsies Awards are ...

How Conservatives Manipulate People Into Voting Against Their Best Interests

Digby, Common Sense. December 7, 2007.

Pseudopopulist conservatives have destroyed reason.

The Nuclear Industry's New Shill: Christie Todd Whitman

Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. August 27, 2007.

Hiring former Bush administration EPA head Christie Todd Whitman to chair its "Clean and Safe Energy Coalition" is the nuclear industry's latest PR attempt at "greening" its image.

How Reporters Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Front Groups

Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. March 16, 2007.

We're having a lopsided discussion on energy issues in America because the nuclear industry has funded it that way.