Center for Media and Democracy
- Center for Media and Democracy
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nonprofit American-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber.
It publishes "PR Watch", a quarterly newsletter edited by Laura A. Miller. Stauber and CMD research director Sheldon Rampton have written five books describing what they call the murky world of public relations. 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."
Political affiliations
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. It states its opposition to "the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media." In contrast, it favors "grassroots citizen activism that promotes public health, economic justice, ecological sustainability and human rights."
Funding
The CMD states that it "...does "not" accept corporate, labor union or government grants", and maintains a lists of financial supporters on its website.[cite web | url = http://www.prwatch.org/finances.html | title = Financial Supporters | publisher = Center for Media and Democracy | accessdate = 2008-06-03 ] ]Criticism
ActivistCash.com, a website run by the Center for Consumer Freedom—which the CMD itself describes as "a front group for the restaurant, alcohol and tobacco industries" [ [http://www.prwatch.org/node/1750 Bogus "Consumer Group" Stripped of Domain Names] PR Watch February 20, 2003] —describes the Center for Media and Democracy, the sponsor of SourceWatch, as "a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization... it is essentially a two-person operation" run by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.[cite news | url=http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/12 | title=Center for Media & Democracy|publisher=ActivistCash.com and Center for Consumer Freedom | date=2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2006-12-24] ]References
External links
* [http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/index.html "About us" page]
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