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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Though mindshare is inherently limited, and new media outlets don't tend to gain mass audiences, a "long tail" of bloggers and multimedia users—as Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson calls it—is developing smaller, loyal audiences and becoming part of a global conversation. Media circulates through social networks with many dynamic nodes and connections, repeatedly shared rather than wholly consumed. This world conversation has broad implications for the social and political consciousness of the next generations—our children and grandchildren.

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Michele Simon See book keywords and concepts

That a major newspaper like the Los Angeles Times would allow CCF's industry-biased statements to go largely unchallenged is remarkable, but by no means unprecedented; such breaches of basic journalistic principles are routinely committed by other media outlets. Curiously, though, in contrast, reporters covering illnesses like AIDS, leukemia, and Lyme disease rarely solicit "opposing" views of "authorities" who deny that these are serious public health concerns.

Because "balance"-minded media outlets are perpetually anxious to present "both sides" of an issue, CCF's well-oiled PR machine is often able to step in and supply them with its own premanufactured controversy. So, for example, when a state proposes a school nutrition bill, CCF is on the spot, fulminating about how such policies are an egregious affront to students' "choices"—never mind the fact that such legislation typically enjoys overwhelming public support.

Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of MSG, aspartame and excitotoxins Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They have all the media outlets covered. The only place that they don't have covered is talk radio and the internet. The health blogs can tell the truth. No matter how much a newspaper wants to tell the truth, they're not going to do it. This is the kind of pressure these people are under. Even if you have a good writer who wants to write the story, his editor is going to override him and prevent it or water it down considerably. You see this in journals like the Journal of Clinical Nutrition or College Nutrition.

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda Jacky Law See book keywords and concepts

Company-sponsored advisory boards supply the 'independent experts' for these stories, consumer groups provide the 'victims', and PR companies provide media outlets with the positive spin about the latest 'breakthrough' medications.17 The scale of pharma means that healthcare priorities are established on the assumption that the interests of the drug companies and the desires of patients are identical. There is considerable overlap, as we have seen, but in important respects, they come into conflict.

The Sunfood Diet Success System David Wolfe See book keywords and concepts

Write a letter to your local politicians, newspapers and other media outlets, telling them how you feel about the difficulties of finding non-poisoned food in your area. g Eat wild foods. h Plant fruiting plants and trees wherever you legally can and enjoy the harvest each year, i Consider moving to a better location where higher-quality foods are available. j Contact the gardening advocacy group: Food Not Lawns. HOW TO USE THE SUNFOOD TRIANGLE The charts provided in this lesson become applicable when 70-100% of your food intake consists of raw food.

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Of course, when there's money to be made, you're unlikely to hear the truth from anyone standing in line to receive some of that money - and that certainly includes the majority of magazine publishers, newspaper publishers, cable companies and media outlets. They all benefit from milk advertising ("milk money"). Hence, they are unlikely to make public information that would earn the wrath of the dairy industry. \ When it comes to hormones, however, there is one thing you can do to protect yourself: buy organic milk made without the use of hormones.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

One of the important roles of advocacy groups is to serve up patients to media outlets giving them a steady stream of real people, to help reporters craft stories that will impact emotionally on their readers. CHADD explicitly sees part of its role as providing "physician experts and families dealing with AD/HD for news and feature articles, television segments, or radio interviews." A quick check with the organization's media liaison staff revealed CHADD had in fact supplied at least one of the adult patients reported on in the U.S. News & World Report story.

America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts

The ACNP task force's report went to the major media outlets and was heard across the nation. Time magazine noted that the ACNP, "having reviewed the data, says the link to suicide is weak and that the drugs' benefits outweigh the risks.

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels See book keywords and concepts

The journal, and other media outlets, published damning internal FDA emails revealing details of some of those communications. In one email about the forthcoming advisory committee meeting Janet Woodcock explained to a colleague that the company was having some "reservations" about the planned meeting because "the advisors may disagree with what we have negotiated and put us back at square one." She went on to add that she agreed with the company executive that this was a "real liability.

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Because the mass media apologizes for the drug industry, and most of the media outlets in this country are funded by drug money. Look at any magazine, newspaper, or cable news program, and what do you see? Drug ads. Those ads are paying the salaries of the very people who decide what's news and what isn't. Drugs, drugs everywhere Have you picked up a magazine lately? Have you picked up any of those news magazines on the newsstands? Have you picked up a medical journal? Did you notice that they're 50 percent drug ads? There's hardly any news in the news magazines at all.

Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You can't seriously expect the major media outlets to offer fair and balanced coverage to a book that's threatening the profit centers of their primary advertisers, can you? Of course not. Trudeau will never get a fair shake in the eyes of the drug-supported press. A milestone in changing times There's a more important issue here than just Kevin Trudeau's success with his Natural Cures book, however. Trudeau knows, as much as anybody, that half the recipe for success is being at the right place at the right time... with the right product.

Junk science: negative study on calcium and vitamin D supplements was poorly constructed, yet widely reported Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Yet it's being touted by pharmaceutical-funded newspapers and media outlets around the world as an "A-ha!" moment, proving that calcium supplements and vitamin D supplements are useless. Faced with this information, what should consumers do now? Take more drugs, no doubt. Drugs which, by the way, are typically only "proven" through the construction of carefully distorted, selective studies that exaggerate their benefits and minimize their risks. To think that calcium and vitamin D don't enhance bone health is, all by itself, rather astounding.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Moreover, Gillmor urges corporate media and corporations to embrace and collaborate with citizen media outlets —not fight against them. He offers advice to corporate media participants and lays out new rules of conduct for everyone from PR flacks to CEOs: "Make sure your Web site has everything a journalist might need ... Post or link to what your people say publicly, and to what is said about you. When your CEO or other top official gives an interview, transcribe it and post in on the Web site. If it's an interview being broadcast, put the audio or video online as well ...

With each experiment yielding a different result, and plenty of media outlets for sharing experiences, the wealth of resources has become a self-sustaining treasure chest growing at an exponential rate. sr DIY Culture Do-it-yourselfers do not see limits, they see sprawling potential, order drawn from chaos, hope. Outside of mainstream culture, many think this way out of necessity. They live in conditions that force them to invent solutions to everyday problems: the Delta dweller who builds a raft out of plastic water jugs, the desert trekker who sews a sun shade out of scraps.

America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts

Research found in other medical journals makes it to popular media outlets less frequently. But there are other ways to get medical information into the mass media. Being sensational and being willing to spend lots of money on marketing can work wonders. Promotion by Drug Companies New York gynecologist Dr. Robert A. Wilson believed that spreading the hormone replacement message was so important that he quit his private practice, established the Wilson Research Foundation and began working on a book which he hoped would widely educate the public.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

The sponsors of these media outlets control the message that you hear on television and radio, and read in newspapers and magazines. That is the fact. No one can deny it. Therefore, since the majority of advertisers are pharmaceutical companies and the major food companies, you will never hear the truth that the food industry is giving you disease and the pharmaceutical drugs are giving you disease. Question: Is there a difference between fitness and health? Answer: Yes. A person can be very fit, but very unhealthy.

These media outlets are simply an extension of the sponsors. Remember, the sponsors always control the content and the information that you are being exposed to. Remember, it's always all about the money. Can you see why I'm mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore! Debunking Natural Remedies. In an actual government memorandum, the U.S. federal government states that one of the most effective tools to get people to believe the government's opinion is to put together a well orchestrated debunking campaign.

The majority of money received by these media outlets is from the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry. Folks, you are being brainwashed; you are being lied to; you are being deceived. A good example of this is I had an ABC news crew come to my house at 7:00 a.m., unannounced. They banged on my door, and they made it appear that I was unwilling to answer the door and answer their questions or give them an interview. This was categorically untrue and false. ABC News specifically tried to mislead the public into believing that I would not answer the door and give them an interview.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

Professional time might be available as pro bono work from advertising and public relations firms. media outlets might also agree to use public service space for nutrition and activity programming. This may help, but would only be a start. Generating funds to promote nutrition might be done in several ways. In Chapter 6 we recognize that schools may lose money if they cease the sales of snack foods and soft drinks. A way to replace this funding would be to enact a small state or national tax on soft drinks, snack foods, and fast foods, earmarking the money for schools.

Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

National Depression Awareness Day began in 1991 and has grown into a huge media event. media outlets receive glossy press kits well in advance of the day, generating countless newspaper and magazine articles, radio announcements, and television coverage. The media outlets provide the coverage as a free public service. On the day, in early October, thousands of sites in hospitals, corporations, and universities around the country provide free depression screening to anyone interested.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

There are secret meetings with the sponsors who dictate the content of all programming and topics covered or not covered in the media outlets. Because of the cross-ownership of corporations, and the massive amount of stock owned by the executives of corporations, and how many members of the boards of companies are also members of the boards of other companies, there is very little if any objective journalism and unbiased media reporting. A good example is AOL heavily promotes reality television shows on NBC.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Under his direction, Hill & Knowlton arranged hundreds of meetings, briefings, calls and mailings directed toward the editors of daily newspapers and other media outlets. Jack O'Dwyer had reported on the PR business for more than twenty years, but he was awed by the rapid and expansive work of H&K on behalf of Citizens for a Free Kuwait: "Hill & Knowlton . . . has assumed a role in world affairs unprecedented for a PR firm. H&K has employed a stunning variety of opinion-forming devices and techniques to help keep US opinion on the side of the Kuwaitis. . . .

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Somalia was based more on potential oil reserves there than on the tragic images of starving Somalis that dominated major media outlets in late 1992 and 1993. The U.S./UN military involvement in Somalia began in mid-November 1992, but it wasn't until January 18, 1993, two days before George Bush left office, that a major media outlet, the Los Angeles Times, published an article that revealed America's oil connection with Somalia. Times staff writer Mark Fineman started his Mogadishu-datelined article with, "Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S.

On March 11,1992, The Center for the Study of Commercialism invited 200 media outlets to a press conference in Washington, D.C., to announce the results of its study. Not a single radio or television station or network sent a reporter. Only two newspapers, the Washington Post and the Washington Times, bothered to attend. The Post didn't run a story at all; the Times ran one but didn't name the advertisers cited in the study. The press conference, designed to show how advertisers suppress the news, made its point.

As Foreign Policy (3/22/96) points out, "Correspondents, editors, pundits, and publishers who work for major media outlets tend to see themselves as members of an opinion-making elite. They consider themselves on an intellectual and social par with high-level policymakers, an attitude that increases the prospect of their being co-opted by ambitious and determined policymakers." This is an attitude that leads to self-censorship. 7.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

By first restoring the plant's true name, hemp, BACH began to carefully re-educate targeted business interests, ecolo-gists, farmers, health care professionals, political activists, media outlets, human rights groups, etc., to stimulate a convergence of interests for hemp restoration. The growing coalition is profiting from shared experience, and growing together, but along separate tracks.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Investigative journalism also is more expensive than the "public stenography" form of journalism practiced at many media outlets. And, of course, there is always the "don't rock the boat" mentality which pervades corporate media boardrooms and then filters down to the newsroom. The latter influence has only been exacerbated by the number of megamedia mergers in recent history. The need to play it safe is becoming pervasive as the stakes are becoming increasingly higher.

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