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The Fakest Time of the Year: The 2007 Falsies Awards

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the year that the Falsies Awards have truly arrived!

Groucho maskHere at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), we've dearly treasured our Falsies since we gave the first awards out in 2004. After 12 months of reporting on the cynical, manipulative and just plain anti-democratic pollution of our information environment, we love adding an extra dash of humor to our work. But this year's Falsies Awards are extra super special.

Wolfowitz Rides Again with Bush/Cheney

Submitted by John Stauber on

Bill Berkowitz reports that Paul Wolfowitz "has been offered a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board -- formerly known as the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board -- a prestigious State Department

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Main Source: 
Media Transparency, December 6, 2007
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iran
Iraq
Terrorism
Public Diplomacy
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Kentucky Officials Treated to a Global Warming Snow Job

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"You can only hear that the sky is falling so many times," said Kentucky Representative Jim Gooch, explaining why he only invited global warming skeptics with no scientific background to address state legislators on climate issues.

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Main Source: 
Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), November 15, 2007
Topics: 
Climate Change
Corporations
Science
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Unlocking One Think Tank's Oily Secrets

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

Why would the John Locke Foundation, a "conservative North Carolina-based think tank" launch a "series of scathing attacks" against the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), a Pennsylvania-based "nonprofit group of scientists, engineers, business strategists and policy experts who guide states in figuring out how to best reduce greenhouse gas pollution"?

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Main Source: 
Facing South (Institute for Southern Studies blog), November 13, 2007
Topics: 
Climate Change
Third Party Technique
Corporations
Science
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U.S. Does Democracy Demotion in Iran

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"The United States has begun a $75-million program to promote democracy by supporting Iranian NGO's [non-governmental organizations]," write Haleh Esfandiari and Robert Litwak. "That program, coupled with loose talk about regime change ...

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Main Source: 
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 19, 2007
Topics: 
Iran
Democracy
International
Propaganda
Think Tanks
U.S. Government
War / Peace

Well-Connected Skeptics Behind UK Attack on Global Warming Film

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

Snapshot from viral videoThe school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about

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Main Source: 
The Observer (UK), October 14, 2007
Topics: 
Children
Climate Change
International
Right Wing
Science
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Czech President the Anti-Gore, Says U.S. Think Tank

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"President Vaclav Klaus is getting help from a right-wing U.S. think tank ... to spread a message many see as anti-environmentalist and some Czechs say reflects badly on their country," reports the Prague Post.

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Main Source: 
The Prague Post (Czech Republic), September 19, 2007
Topics: 
Advertising
Climate Change
International
Media
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Outsourcing Firms Bring Lobbying Business to the U.S.

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"As the 2008 U.S. election starts to sizzle, the Indian outsourcing firms have returned to win Washington over as veritable insiders, slicker and better connected than ever," reports Anand Giridharadas.

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Main Source: 
International Herald Tribune, August 15, 2007
Topics: 
Front Groups
Third Party Technique
International
Labor
Lobbying
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