Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy

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William Dinan, David Miller
Pluto Press, Jun 20, 2007 - Business & Economics - 324 pages
Leading writers expose the scandalous world of corporate spin and its impact on media freedom, democracy and the health of our planet

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Contents

Public Relations and the Subversion of Democracy
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Crises of Capitalist Globalisation 21
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A Tour of the United Kingdoms Public Relations Industry
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Copyright

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William Dinan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Stirling. He is a co-founder and director of Spinwatch. He is co-author of A Century of Spin (Pluto, 2007) and the co-editor of Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy (Pluto, 2007). David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. He has previously edited Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy (2007), Arguments Against G8 (2005) and Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq (2003) for Pluto Press.