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Nirthers Fleecing the Flock

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Killgore Trout5/21/2009 7:44:02 pm PDT

Here’s the PRwatch article on Center for Media and Democracy

Critiques

CMD has been criticized for having an anti-corporate viewpoint by industry lobbyists like Berman & Co., a public affairs firm owned by Rick Berman specializing in creating front groups for industry clients in the tobacco, food, biotechnology and other sectors. ActivistCash.com, an industry-funded website run by Berman & Co. and associated with Berman’s Center for Consumer Freedom, has run such critiques. ActivistCash.com accuses CMD of operating “as do most self-anointed progressive watchdogs, from the presumption that any communication issued from a corporate headquarters must be viewed with a jaundiced eye.” This website also opines, “If someone in a shirt and tie dares make a profit (especially if food or chemicals are involved), Rampton and Stauber are bound to have a problem with it. Unless, of course, that food is vegetarian, organic, certified fair-trade, shade-grown, biodynamic, or biotech-free, in which case, the sky’s the limit!” See the article on CMD on ActivistCash.com, and the criticisms section of the Wikipedia article on SourceWatch


You can’t really accuse them of hiding anything.