[Cgfc] John Stauber talk

[Molly Stentz]

Co-opers,

John Stauber is the Madison-based writer and author of Mad Cow USA and
other books about food policy issues. He will be at Borders this Tuesday.

-Molly


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John Stauber Talk and book signing
Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 PM

Borders Books
802 West Town Center Blvd. in Champaign


Executive Director John Stauber, an investigative writer, public speaker
and democracy activist, founded the Center for Media & Democracy in 1993.
Since high school in the 1960s, he has worked with public interest,
consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the
local, state and national level. He edits and writes for the Center's
quarterly newsmagazine, PR Watch, and in collaboration with PR Watch
Editor Sheldon Rampton he has co-authored three books, Toxic Sludge Is
Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (1995);
Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? (1997); and Trust Us,
We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your
Future (2001).

Before founding the Center, he worked for five years for the Foundation on
Economic Trends, a Washington, DC nonprofit organization, researching
possible health and economic impacts of recombinant bovine growth hormone
(rBGH) and organizing concerned citizens and farmers. Stauber is
frequently featured, interviewed or quoted in media including the
Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, ABC's Good Morning America,
CNN's Burden of Proof, Fox News Channel, and NPR's Marketplace. Born in
1953, he is married and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

In their new book, Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates
Science and Gambles with Your Future, Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
offer a chilling expose on the manufacturing of "independent experts."
Public relations firms and corporations have seized upon a slick new way
of getting you to buy what they have to sell: Let you hear it from a
neutral "third party," like a professor or a pediatrician or a soccer mom
or a watchdog group. The problem is, these third parties are usually
anything but neutral. They have been handpicked, cultivated, and
meticulously packaged to make you believe what they have to
say--preferably in an "objective" format like a news show or a letter to
the editor. And in some cases, they have been paid handsomely for their
"opinions." http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html

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