[GreenYes] Toxic Sludge Is Good For YouThe Public Relations Industry Unspun

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Toxic  Sludge Is Good For You
The Public Relations Industry Unspun  


Narrated by Amy Goodman  
(2002)

In this section:
_Summary_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#summary) 
_Logistical  Information_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#logistics) 
_Biographical  Summary_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#bio) 
_Reviews  and Comments_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#reviews) 
_Screenings  and Festivals_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#screenings) 
_Articles_ 
(http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ToxicSludge/#articles) Summary:  
While advertising is the visible component of the corporate system,  perhaps 
even more important and pervasive is its invisible partner, the  public 
relations industry. This video illuminates this hidden sphere of  our culture and 
examines the way in which the management of ?the public  mind? has become 
central to how our democracy is controlled by political  and economic elites. Toxic 
Sludge Is Good For You 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. 
PR critics include PR Watch founder John Stauber,  cultural scholars Mark 
Crispin Miller and Stuart Ewen.  Toxic Sludge Is Good For You tracks the 
development of the PR  industry from early efforts to win popular American support for 
World War  I to the role of crisis management in controlling the damage to 
corporate  image. The video analyzes the tools public relations professionals 
use to  shift our perceptions including a look at the coordinated PR campaign to 
 slip genetically engineered produce past public scrutiny. 
Toxic Sludge Is Good For You urges viewers to question the  experts and 
follow the money back to the public relations industry to  challenge its hold on 
democracy. 
SECTIONS: The PR Industry / Roots in Conflict / Not Local, Not News /  Third 
Party Advocacy / Selling Wars / Controlling Damage and Managing  Crisis / 
Silencing Debate 
Logistical  Information:   
Producer: Margo Robb
Editor: Jeremy Smith
Executive  Producers: Loretta Alper & Sut JhallyBiographical  Summary:  
John Stauber is the founder and director of the non-profit _Center for Media 
and Democracy._ (http://www.prwatch.org/)  He  publishes PR Watch, a quarterly 
newsletter examining the public  relations industry, and co-wrote with 
Sheldon Rampton Toxic Sludge Is  Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public 
Relations Industry; Mad Cow  USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? and in 2001, 
Trust Us, We're  Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your  
Future.Screenings and Festivals:   
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