Ten years ago John Stauber decided to take on the media arm of corporate America: the public relations industry. From his home in Madison, Wisconsin, he founded PR Watch, a quarterly magazine that tracked the machinations of the hired guns who stealthily attempt to manage [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Yeah, that so called rescue of that girl was soooo stupid. They should send that Mohammed idiot back to Iraq.
I find the whole PR-corporate-media machine somewhat dangerous, especially in a climate where people : will believe anything they’re told, won’t raise a dissenting voice for fear of being labeled unpatriotic, allow their Constitutionally-protected rights to be stripped from them, and won’t make it clear to the media that this is not the kind of coverage we demand as citizens and “consumers” of media.
We’ve got 10,000 decent writers out here who can’t even get their manuscripts *looked at* by publishers, and all it takes is one Jessica Lynch or some idiotic guy going over Niagara Falls, and the book and movie deals are forthcoming. That’s the kind of country we live in.
RE the comment on the rescue of the girl - Chet, get a clue dude. Read about what happened and how totally unnecessary the whole charade was. PR down to its empty soul.
I teach Joel Bleifuss’ article on Pusztai, the genetic engineer, as a way in to talking about GE Food in my community college English class. He’s terrific. And of course Stauber is also wonderful: he writes in English that ordinary people can understand AND he nails the Bush PR weirdness dead on.
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