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Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 87475
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1567510604
Dewey Decimal Number: 659.20973
EAN: 9781567510607
ASIN: 1567510604
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
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Condition: minor wear-----minor curl----free of markings inside
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Amazon.com Review
Sure, many of us in this modern world are cynical. The most cynical may even suspect that the news is manipulated and massaged by sponsors, that corporations act in their best interests, that political campaigns are determined not by votes, but by bucks, and that we don't get "all the news that's fit to print" but instead, "all the news that gets the ink". But even the most media-savvy amongst you will be awed by the behind-the-scenes descriptions of the Public Relations industry in action so masterfully described in this book. If you want your eyes to be opened, open them upon the pages of this book. (But remember: there are some very important people counting on you, and they really would prefer that you didn't ever hear about this book, much less buy it.)
Product Description
Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire with lobbyists and politicians.
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 Telling the truth about all those liars October 24, 2008
Roberto Giannicola (Walnut Creek, CA United States)
Excellent, I love this book and the information in it is to be used in every classroom. Teachers, take a look at it and bring it to the students.
I loved to learn about the tricks that corporations have used to make profits while disregarding the damage they have done to the environment and lied to use about it.
This book illustrates how much of what we think of as independent, unbiased news and information has its origins in the boardrooms of the public relations companies.
What your student will say after reading this books is something in the lines of:"Where have I been all this life?".
A must read.
Love or Hate December 12, 2007
Brendon David (www.iKnowGuides.com)
This book is like a Michael Moore movie. Like it or hate it, you'll find that the topics this book poses are worth exploring in conversation. Additionally, it'll bring you to look at the media in a different way.
Read this to learn about the "darker side of PR". Great and easy read.
iKnow
Lies, damn lies, and PR November 25, 2006
Barbara L. Lemaster (Florida)
It's hard to be an idealist in an age of corporate spin, where everything bad is now good for you. Fortunately for the public at large, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton have written a meticulously researched, hard-hitting, cynical look at the PR (public relations) industry and how its influence sometimes works against the public good. I found myself particularly surprised at the duplicity utilized by The Body Shop (a store I used to frequent), as well as other notable American corporations. I also highly recommend their other book, "Trust Us, We're Experts!"
Beware of Experts -- Follow the Money July 2, 2005
Mary Poplin
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
Once again, John Stauber has written a book that tells it like it is, and this one ought to be a bestseller. Readers who can accept these truths may also want to read a couple highly detailed yet fascinating exposes of toxic sludge that is supposed to be good for us. First, "Fluoride Deception" by Christopher Bryson. Yup, that fluoride in your water and toothpaste is a poisonous wasteproduct turned to profit through shrewd public relations strategies. Secondly, read "The Whole Soy Story" by Kaayla Daniel. This is even more of a shocker. It's on how we've all been sold on the idea that soy is good for us. Did you know that soy protein and lecithin are waste products -- toxic and sludgy leftovers from vegetable oil and margarine making that the soy industry decided to make profitable? Because no one other than a few vegetarians and hippies wanted to eat that toxic sludge, we all had to be manipulated into believing that they are good for us. And now soy's in so many foods that it's hard to escape it. Thanks to John Stauber's books including "Trust Us, We're Experts,"I'm wary of experts and now know enough to follow the money.
This book is phenomenal.. October 2, 2004
J. Zohn (Vero Beach FL)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
In addition to the fact that this book reads like a thriller, the content and specific examples that are used in this book are so eye opening that it might make you depressed or even nauseated.
Americans are flooded with a propaganda campaign so efficiant that it would make the NAZIs jealous. This book expalins in vivid detail the actual manipulation tactics that are used by the energy, pharmacuetical and tobbaco industries (among others) to blind us into submission and hypnotize us into believing their products are not only safe but are intimately tied to your youth and vitality.
An earlier post for this book made the comment that the authors shouldn't explain the actual manipulation strategies, but the dangerous PR firms allready know how to use them. The rest of us should know these strategies so we can recognize their tactics when we are confronted with them.
Highly recomended book.
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