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	Sheldon Rampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheldon Rampton (born August 4, 1957) is the editor of PR Watch, and the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda.
		Upon graduation in 1982, Rampton worked as a newspaper reporter before becoming a peace activist.
		In 1995, Rampton teamed with John Stauber as co-editors of PR Watch, a publication of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheldon_Rampton (473 words)

	Sheldon Rampton, Co-Author of "Weapons Of Mass Deception: The Uses Of Propaganda In Bush’s War On Iraq" - A ...
		Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, of the Center for Media Democracy and PRWatch.org, co-wrote "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq." Let us tell you, this is BuzzFlash's kind of book (and, of course, we will be offering it as a premium next week).
		SHELDON RAMPTON: We used that passage as part of a chapter in "Weapons of Mass Deception" entitled "The Uses of Fear," in which we examine the ways that fear played a role in the buildup to the war with Iraq.
		RAMPTON: To justify the notion that the war on Iraq is an appropriate component of the struggle against terrorism or that it is a response to the events of September 11, you have to make certain claims, which in fact the Bush administration did make.
	www.buzzflash.com /interviews/03/07/24_rampton.html (4957 words)

	Spinsanity: PR Watch Editor Sheldon Rampton criticizes "Foul Cry" -- Ben Fritz responds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While Sheldon Rampton is welcome to disagree with the Tribune and Times editorials discussed in my column, he makes the common mistake of confusing my criticism of FAIR's representation of those editorials with a defense of their content.
		Rampton begins by writing that "[t]he 'extensive criticism of Chavez' which you cite are the REASONS which the Tribune gives to JUSTIFY its endorsement of the coup." However, he fails to prove that the Tribune actually endorsed the coup or was excited by it.
		Rampton also accuses me of "simply accepting at face value the Tribune's harsh criticisms of Hugo Chavez, whose performance as a leader is mixed but arguably no worse than the performance of many elected U.S. presidents." But the accuracy of the Tribune's description of Chavez's performance is not relevant to my criticism of FAIR.
	www.spinsanity.org /columns/20020701-rampton.html (1834 words)

	Advance Titan Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rampton spoke of the second triumphant event for the Bush administration, which was viewed as inspiring for Americans, but threatening to the rest of the world.
		Rampton suggested that this speech was a way for Bush to support the war and also improve his reputation, but was viewed by the rest of the world as alienating.
		Rampton spoke on America’s perception that the war in Iraq was a response to the terrorist attacks when, in fact, America had been planning the war for years.
	www.advancetitan.com /story.asp?story=2515 (695 words)

	MediaChannel.org - OP-ED \| Buyer Beware
		In their book, "Trust Us, We're Experts," Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber fail their own criterion of skepticism of media claims driven by public relations campaigns when they base their analysis of the Independent Institute on an erroneous and long-discredited article in the September 18, 1999, edition of The New York Times.
		Rampton and Stauber also accuse the Independent Institute of employing other disreputable tactics they themselves are guilty of using: "Yet suppose we could supply testimonials from people whose names you've heard and respect, or who carry impressive titles and credentials.
		In sum, Rampton and Stauber's thesis is yet another example of an ad hominem attack in which no serious examination is made of the substance of the issues in dispute (e.g., is the Microsoft antitrust case pro- or anti-consumer?).
	www.mediachannel.org /views/oped/theroux.shtml (2188 words)

	Sheldon Rampton - Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sheldon Rampton, who serves as secretary of the WCCN Board of Directors and as a member of the Loan Fund Oversight Committee, has a diverse background as newspaper reporter, activist and author.
		He was also a staff member of WCCN as loan fund outreach coordinator from 1994 to 1999, and currently serves on the Loan Fund Oversight Committee.
		Sheldon also works as the editor of PR Watch and is the author of several works of investigative reporting on the public relations industry, including Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future.
	www.wccnica.org /people/sheldon_rampton.html (178 words)

	Freezerbox Magazine - The Science of Things
		The type of reporting practiced by Rampton and Stauber is as valuable as it is rare, an endangered species on journalism's landscape.
		Calling someone in public policy agenda-driven is like accusing them of breathing; Stauber and Rampton make no secret of their agenda--to monitor and expose the PR industry--and any intelligent reader can digest their information with that frame of reference in mind.
		Rampton and Stauber note correctly that naming the declaration after Leipzig, a city in Germany, gave it "a patina of gray eminence" that it probably didn't deserve.
	www.freezerbox.com /archive/article.asp?id=141 (4169 words)

	Amazon.com: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq: Books: Sheldon Rampton,John Stauber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Furthermore, it is Rampton and Stauber's goal that after reading their work, American citizens will analyze carefully and be more skeptical of the different types of media that they come into contact with.
		Co-author Sheldon Rampton is a graduate of Princeton University and has worked as a newspaper reporter, activist, and author.
		Rampton and Stauber are both clearly opposed to the work that the Bush administration has done while in office.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585422762?v=glance (3498 words)

	Free Press : Sleuths of spin
		Sleuths of spin John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton have exposed how corporate shills and government spokespersons manipulate the media and undermine democracy for more than a decade.
		Rampton maintains that SourceWatch “is an example of media democracy in action — an information source that is truly ‘of, by and for the people’ who use it.
		Sheldon Rampton and I wrote our expose of the Public Relations industry, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You, ten years ago.
	www.freepress.net /news/6839 (2028 words)

	User:Maurreen/Journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We thought we'd start by referencing existing standards put forth by groups such as the Society of Professional Journalists and inviting people to participate in editing and developing them further.
		Sheldon, thanks for the enthusiasm and the generosity concerning [3].
		I hope my reply doesn't seem ungenerous, but I have some concern that SourceWatch could give the perception of a liberal association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Maurreen/Journalism (1209 words)

	PAW June 6, 2001 ClassNotes
		Rampton’s latest book attacks scientists whose work is bought and paid for by corporations with a stake in the studies.
		In the early 1990s, Sheldon Rampton ’82 listened as John Stauber —; a fellow Wisconsin activist — proposed a publication to track the seamy underbelly of the public relations industry.
		Rampton was impressed, but he wondered whether they could find enough articles to sustain a publication.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW00-01/16-0606/classnotes.html (1009 words)

	Sheldon Rampton's World - for friends and family of Sheldon Rampton
		Sheldon Rampton's World - for friends and family of Sheldon Rampton
		I think the piece is lightly fictionalized, but I recognized clearly one of the characters — referred to by Walter as "V" and described as "a Pakistani boy who'd disappointed his family--and even, as he told it, his nation's leaders--by leaving his intended major, electrical engineering, for philosophy."
		This weekend I was exercising at home with the TV on for company, and when I started flipping channels, all of a sudden the face appeared of Walter Kirn, one of my old Princeton classmates.
	www.sheldonrampton.com (706 words)

	Ecology Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All are invited to a brown-bag lecture and discussion with Sheldon Rampton
		Stauber and Rampton take us behind the scenes, inside corporate boardrooms, where marketing chiefs literally manufacture their own 'independent experts' to defend their products and practices.
		"Rampton and Stauber's book explodes the cult of expertise and shows how easily the media and their readers can be misled by public relations claims masquerading as science.
	www.ecocenter.org /releases/20030403prwatchevent.shtml (598 words)

	Amazon.de: Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber argue that both the American and British governments colluded with beef producers to suppress important facts about interspecies transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow disease"--facts that might have prevented gruesome deaths.
		Rampton and Stauber fear grave consequences for public health, and they make a convincing case against these laws--and, inadvertently, for vegetarianism.
		The topic of the book is how the meat industry, their public relations firms and the governments of the USA and Britian worked together to attempt to conceal important information about a newly discovered disease that was abroad in the human food system.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1567511112 (1499 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Politics: Naked City
		To understand just what Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber do, think of Toto in The Wizard of Oz, tugging at that curtain, yapping away in hopes that someone will look behind it.
		Rampton and Stauber edit PR Watch (www.prwatch.org), the quarterly newsletter devoted since 1993 to exposing the public relations industry's influences on public policy.
		Sheldon Rampton: The public relations industry is a specific branch of a broader propaganda industry that exists.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-10-17/pols_naked7.html (1184 words)

	Sheldon Rampton's blog \| CivicSpace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on 30 December, 2004 - 9:39pm.
		Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on 26 December, 2004 - 2:34pm.
		Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on 26 December, 2004 - 12:04pm.
	civicspacelabs.org /home/blog/63 (1031 words)

	Sheldon Rampton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sheldon Rampton is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Along with John Stauber, he is the co-founder and editor of the quarterly publication PR Watch also based in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Rampton and Stauber previous book is Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq.
	www.selvesandothers.org /view715.html (793 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Banana Republicans and Weapons of Mass Deception
		We are joined by the founders of the Center, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
		Sheldon Rampton, can you talk about the approach that the Republican Party has most recently taken in these few years and who are the intellectual -- who are providing the intellectual, underpinning for this?
		Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber, "Banana Republicans" is the name of their book, "How the Right-Wing is turning America into a One-Party State".
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/06/18/1412255 (2435 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Trust Us, We're Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lively writing on controversial topics such as dioxin, bovine growth hormone and genetically modified food makes this a real page-turner, shocking in its portrayal of the real and potential dangers in each of these technological innovations and of the "media pseudo-environment" created to obfuscate the risks.
		Rampton and Stauber introduce the movers and shakers of the PR industry, from the "risk communicators" (whose job is to downplay all risks) and "outrage managers" (with their four strategies--deflect, defer, dismiss or defeat) to those who specialise in "public policy intelligence" (spying on opponents).
		According to public relations philosophers, the public reacts emotionally to topics related to health and safety and is incapable of holding rational discourse.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1585421391 (1749 words)

	Would We Lie to You? / Muckrackers shine a light on 'experts' paid to mold public opinion
		As Rampton and Stauber state, "With the exception of nuclear war, it is hard to imagine a higher-stakes issue than global warming."
		Rampton and Stauber cite political theorist Goran Therborn's observation that there are three ways to keep people apathetic about a problem.
		Rampton and Stauber -- the latter one of the world's experts on the public relations industry, and founder and director of the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy -- are good old-fashioned muckrakers, the sort of investigative and humanitarian writers the American people need if we're to salvage what's left of our democracy.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/08/RV203446.DTL (779 words)

	Sleuths of spin - Media activists John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton aim to 'reinvent journalism' through 'SourceWatch' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rampton maintains that SourceWatch "is an example of media democracy in action -- an information source that is truly 'of, by and for the people' who use it.
		In our book Weapons of Mass Deception Sheldon and I explained how rather than challenge Bush's war and exposing the falsehoods and failures in Bush's claims, the US news media became a propaganda arm of the government.
		JS: Sheldon and I have just begun outlining a new book examining media corruption, spin, and the growing media democracy movement.
	www.fairandbalanced.us /docs/StoryID4051.htm (2036 words)

	Beta version of headlines.module \| CivicSpace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jasonwhat asked, "Could you layout some of the differences between those modules and the summary and front_page modules already on drupal?" The summary module on Drupal isn't a headlines module.
		The idea here is that headlines.module does the heavy lifting of administering and selecting headlines, but splash.module provides an easy way to layout and style the headlines however the site administrator sees fit.
		Sheldon Rampton Research Director, Center for Media and Democracy http://www.prwatch.o
	civicspacelabs.org /home/node/5135 (3718 words)

	LiP \| Interview \| Mad Cow USA - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton \| print version
		Sheldon mentioned that the disease agent, an infectious protein which has been called a "prion" by Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner, is virtually indestructible by heat.
		The most infectious parts of a cow, or a human, or a sheep that has a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy are the brain, the nervous system, the endocrine system, the spinal cord and nerve tissue.
		John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton founded and direct the Center for Media and Democracy in Madison, Wisconsin.
	www.lipmagazine.org /articles/featpostel_31_p.htm (3200 words)

	Amazon.fr : Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future : Livres ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tous les livres en anglais de Sheldon Rampton
		Rampton and Stauber introduce the movers and shakers of the PR industry, from the "risk communicators" (whose job is to downplay all risks) and "outrage managers" (with their four strategies--deflect, defer, dismiss, or defeat) to those who specialize in "public policy intelligence" (spying on opponents).
		Hard-hitting investigative journalists Rampton and Stauber (Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!) ask whether that trust is misplaced.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/158542059X (645 words)

	Books \| Muckraking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton untangle this web in their new exposé Trust Us, We’re Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future.
		Stauber and Rampton remind us that many “grassrootsy,” “environmental,” or “publicly minded” groups are actually nothing of the sort.
		Stauber and Rampton give a few examples of groups and publications — like their own terrific muckraking newsletter PR Watch — that help punch through the industry-induced haze.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/00408545.htm (1744 words)

	Banana Republicans
		Banana Republicans is the latest book by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy.
		The bestselling authors of Weapons of Mass Deception lay bare how the "right-wing conspiracy," as represented by the national GOP and its functionaries in the media, lobbying establishment and electoral system, is undermining dissent and squelching pluralistic politics in America.
		"Rampton and Stauber are two of America's bravest, finest journalists.
	www.bananarepublicans.org (319 words)

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