A four-month investigation by The Nation has found that since 2007 at least seventy-five registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials–people paid by companies and trade groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political interests–have appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and Fox Business Network with no disclosure of […]
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Paid Lobbyists use the media to form our opinions for us
February 14, 2010Media propaganda and the invisible government
September 18, 2009The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology. –Michael Parenti, political scientist and author Have you ever heard of Edward Bernays? No? That is understandable. He never sought the limelight, but he […]
