Using language as a weapon
This article is essential reading:
"Recent news accounts have reported that powerful monied interests are preparing multimillion-dollar advertising and public relations campaigns to support a renewed effort roll back environmental and public health protections. These efforts will be aimed at providing new and effective cover for long-standing influence peddling goals. The resulting advertising and PR messages will almost certainly reach your readers. We are providing you with this memo as a reporting tool, in case it proves useful to your readers in decoding the lobbying spin they will soon see."
It specifically focuses on the American Bush Administration's efforts to sacrifice the environment to the resources sector while reassuring the pubic that its all sound policy. This is an extremely rare close up look at how the facts are manipulated and spun to deceive. It exposes the use of language as a weapon of economic and pyschological warfare. If you think that is going too far, read it first.
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