Our View: Casting Doubt Back On the Doubt-Casters
The Santa Fe New Mexican › January 27, 2007
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Back in the Spiro Agnew days of attacking the news media as a means of distracting Americans' attention from the abuses of the Nixon Administration, Mobil Oil went a step beyond: The company purchased advertising space in major magazines to carry columns refuting environmentalists concerns about petroleum polluting land, air and water.
It was a clever ploy, portraying Big Oil as the victim of troublemakers the press had the naivety to believe.See the full content of this document
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Our View: Casting Doubt Back On the Doubt-Casters
We'll never know how many corporate-toadies' campaigns for public office benefited from propaganda disguised as ...
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