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	Center for Media & Democracy - SourceWatch
		The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), founded in 1993, is a progressive organization founded and administrated by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton (amongst others, see "People" below).
		According to its website, CMD "strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism."
		CMD has been criticized for having an anti-corporate viewpoint by industry lobbyists like Berman and Co., a public affairs firm owned by Rick Berman.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Democracy (712 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is an American-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber.
		Another CMD project is the SourceWatch website (formerly called Disinfopedia), a Wiki, which CMD describes as "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests."
		CMD has stated that it is not affiliated with a political party, but that it does not pretend to lack opinions or a point of view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Center_for_Media_&_Democracy (210 words)

	DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy - About DWC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy was founded on the premise that free news media are essential to the sustainability of democracy.
		Combining scholarly research and real-world experience, the Center supports a policy of democratic free media in the United States and around the globe.
		Media Fellowships: More than 500 print and broadcast journalists have studied at the DeWitt Wallace Center from the United States and abroad.
	www-pps.aas.duke.edu /centers/dewitt/about (361 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Center for Democracy Foundation contributes to the development of civil society in Serbia and FR Yugoslavia through expert and educational programs influencing the public opinion and spreading the democratic political culture, tolerance and dialogue, promoting and protecting human rights and contributing to the formation of politically and economically independent citizens.
		Center for Democracy Foundation wants to be recognized for the democratic principles which supports, for the quality of its programs, its professional approach, good organization and efficiency in the programs performance, as well as for its efforts to actively contribute to the formation of a viable NGO community in Serbia.
		The CDF activities are based on the internationally recognized standards of democracy and international instruments for protection of human and civil rights, principle of legality, principle of political and economic freedom and principle of social solidarity.
	www.cen4dem.org.yu /Organization.html (417 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy \| Publishers of PR Watch
		Watson admitted to eating 2-3 bags of microwave popcorn a day for years, making a point of inhaling the fumes that come from the steamy bag of popcorn when it is first opened.
		Freud Communications' Oliver Wheeler said the edits were "very factual" and "perfectly justifiable." Ketchum's vice-president of new media strategy, Gur Tsabar, said his firm advises clients to edit discussion pages only (not articles themselves), and to disclose their affiliations.
		The Center for Media and Democracy has used WikiScanner to track edits made on computers at Hill and Knowlton's UK office.
	www.prwatch.org (1584 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy
		WASHINGTON -- March 21 -- Free Press, the nonpartisan media reform group, and the Center for Media and Democracy filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission today, urging FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin to investigate broadcasters who distribute government-sponsored news reports without identifying their source.
		Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy are also working with local groups to establish "citizen agreements" with local stations, under which broadcasters pledge to clearly identify or label pre-packaged reports produced by the government.
		The Center for Media and Democracy publishes PR Watch (www.prwatch.org), a newsletter which investigates and exposes how the public relations industry and other professional propagandists manipulate public information, perceptions and opinion on behalf of governments and special interests.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2005/0321-15.htm (439 words)

	Center for Media & Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Center_for_Media_&_Democracy (49 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy, Organic Consumers Association
		Although the USDA says it will now send samples to Britain, further testing is expected to confirm that this animal is the second case of mad cow disease in the United States and the fifth in North America, in two years.
		Various media have reported that the cow is from Texas.
		Diane Farsetta, senior researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy, noted, "The Bush administration refers to the current U.S. cattle feed regulations as a 'firewall,' but they are more like pouring gasoline on the fire.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/news2005/0613-27.htm (809 words)

	Environmentalists Against War
		Here at the Center we've been reporting and speaking out on this particular media corruption for over a decade, but this New York Times article is the first major expose' in the mainstream press.
		Here at the Center we are committed to organizing with others in journalism and in the media reform movement to stop fake news.
		The Center for Media and Democracy is working with Free Press to gather a quarter million signatures on a petition mobilizing the American public to fight fake news and government propaganda:
	www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?&itemid=2487 (723 words)

	Encyclopedia: Center for Media and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Other descriptions of Center for Media and Democracy
		Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Center-for-Media-and-Democracy (542 words)

	Reclaim the Media \| www.reclaimthemedia.org
		The Portland Grassroots Media Camp, to be held Aug. 24-26, will be a weekend of skills trainings and workshops designed to make media creation and production more accessible to organizers, activists, and all community members.
		A rising wave of grassroots media activism is linking up with social movements fighting racism, sexism, economic oppression, environmental plunder and war - and organizing to re-center media reform efforts on human rights and social justice.
		Reclaim the Media and many of our friends and allies were in Atlanta June 27-July 1 for the first United States Social Forum, an ambitious meeting of a "movement of movements," modeled upon the World Social Forums held for several years in Porto Alegre, Mumbai, Caracas, Bamako and Nairobi.
	reclaimthemedia.org (1280 words)

	About CMD \| Center for Media and Democracy
		The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest organization that strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism.
		The Center for Media and Democracy is run by a Board of Directors whose current members are Ellen Braune, Anna Lappe, Joseph Mendelson, David Merritt, Jan Miyasaki, Inger Stole, and executive director John Stauber (in a non-voting capacity).
		Sponsoring "open content" media that enable citizens from all walks of life to "be the media" and to participate in creating media content.
	www.prwatch.org /cmd/index.html (505 words)

	Free Press : Congress eliminates government funding for fake news following public outcry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today applauded Congress for barring federal agencies from producing video news releases (VNRs) that do not clearly disclose the government as their source.
		Free Press and the Center for Media and Democracy are working with grassroots activists nationwide to monitor local broadcasts of VNRs and forge “citizen agreements” with local stations that require broadcasters to clearly identify and label pre-packaged reports produced by the government or corporations.
		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	www.freepress.net /news/8050 (627 words)

	MediaChannel.org - A Global Network of More Than 1,000 Media Issues Groups
		MediaChannel is a project of the 501(c)3 Global Center in cooperation with Globalvision, Inc.
		For more news headlines on the FCC and Big Media, sign up for our free Media Savvy daily newsletter or dig into the archives.
		Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization that works to increase public participation in the media reform debate and to create policies that will safeguard a public interest-oriented media system with a strong non-profit sector.
	www.mediachannel.org /ownership (338 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Center for Media &..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, urged the USDA in January 2005 to re-test the suspect animal using Western Blot, considered to be the most accurate test for mad cow disease.
		Dr. Diane Farsetta, senior researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy, noted, "The Bush administration refers to the current U.S. cattle feed regulations as a 'firewall,' but they are more like pouring gasoline on the fire.
		The Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org) was founded in 1993 to investigate and report on deceptive government and corporate public relations campaigns and propaganda.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=48738 (765 words)

	PR Watch 29/12/04
		The U.S. major media finally examined the extent to which the INC and Chalabi used funding provided by the U.S. Congress to position themselves as a central source for much of the now-discredited “intelligence information” that the Bush administration used to justify the March 2003 invasion.
		The Weekly Spin is compiled by staff and volunteers at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a nonprofit public interest organization.
		Contributions to the Center for Media and Democracy are tax-deductible.
	www.williambowles.info /prwatch/2004_falsies.html (2923 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy/Organic Consumers Association
		John Stauber and Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy, 608-279-4044, 608-260-9713
		at the corner of Eckles and Carter Avenues, on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Organic Consumers Association will hold a news conference to challenge U.S. policies that fail to safeguard against the spread of mad cow disease.
		Center staff have also authored five books, including the 1997 book Mad Cow U.S.A. by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/newsprint.cgi?file=/news2005/0607-23.htm (763 words)

	FightingBob.com: Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The June 18 fundraiser for the Center for Media and Democracy is an opportunity to support an institution the PR industry, the corporate media and the money boys would like to get rid of.
		A clueless, compliant, conservative, corporate media is a key ingredient in the propagandistic soup Stauber and Rampton write about, in Banana Republicans and their other works, and that industry is as reluctant to cover its critics as it is to cover itself.
		And it is why you should attend the Center for Media and Democracy fundraiser/book release party Friday night, June 18, at the Club Majestic just off the Capitol Square.
	fightingbob.org /article.cfm?articleID=227 (812 words)

	Media Reform Information Center
		In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly.
		In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.
		Media Industry Efforts to Eliminate and Weaken the Ownership Rules: What it Means for the Public and the Future of the Internet
	www.corporations.org /media (1009 words)

	Center for Media and Democracy : The Center for Media and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Center for Media and Democracy : The Center for Media and Democracy
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		The Center for Media and Democracy was founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer John Stauber.
	www.city-search.org /th/the-center-for-media-and-democracy.html (467 words)

	Center for Consumer Freedom - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In addition to the Center for Consumer Freedom, Berman and Co. sponsors several other organizations and web sites, including the Employment Policies Institute (which fights to keep the minimum wage low and opposes mandatory health insurance for workers), and the American Beverage Institute, which opposes restrictions on drinking and driving.
		Of the group's $3.82 million of expenditure in 2005, $1.62 million was paid as compensation to Berman and Co., representating approximately 42% of the group's total expenditure.
		In January 2006 David Martosko from CCF was asked, in the context of their campaign dismissing concerns about mercury concentration in seafood, whether they received funding from the seafood industry, from coal companies or utilities.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom (2535 words)

	Modinet - Center for Media and Democracy
		Modinet Center for Media and Democracy: A research network of Danish media and social scientist, analyzing media and democracy in transition.
		Both national democracies and mass media have been changing fundamentally in recent decades.
		The aim of the Modinet research network is to describe and interpret this development by combining media studies and social sciences in new ways.
	www.modinet.dk /english/english.htm (217 words)

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		Their sons, Robert and W. Ford Schumann, now serve as the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy's (SCMD) chairman and vice president, respectively.
		They are also the vice chairman and chairman, respectively, of the Florence Fund, which is a subsidiary of the Schumann Center.
		Their anti-corporate, anti-free market, anti-capitalist philosophy is mirrored by the Center's president, Bill Moyers of PBS fame.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /funderProfile.asp?fndid=5183 (330 words)

	Vermont Media and Democracy Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Presented by CCTV's Center for Media and Democracy and the Vermont
		media in Vermont, the conference seeks to focus public attention on the
		CCTV is a pioneer in Vermont community media and the Vermont
	www.afcn.org /node/28/print (156 words)

	Banana Republicans: Buy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Banana Republicans is available in bookstores, online or by mail order through the Center for Media and Democracy.
		Banana Republicans is a project of the Center for Media and Democracy.
		Currently donors of $100 or more to the Center will receive a complimentary copy of Banana Republicans, autographed by the authors, along with a year's subscription to the Center's quarterly publication, PR Watch.
	www.bananarepublicans.org /buy.html (129 words)

	Center for Social Media - Youth as E-Citizens - Project Report
		"Youth as E-Citizens: Engaging the Digital Generation" was initiated by the Center for Media Education.
		With the closing of the Center in the fall of 2003, the project joined the Center for Social Media at American University in Washington, DC.
		Initial funding for this multi-year research project was provided by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
	www.centerforsocialmedia.org /ecitizens/project.htm (247 words)

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