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Washington's Hidden Astroturf Economy

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, SavetheInternet.Com, Congress, Mike McCurry, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Rachel Maddow, Astroturf, Politics News

Because they're bankrolling astroturf behind a fig leaf of "public relations," large corporations aren't legally required to disclose the lion's share of their funding of these fake grassroots groups.

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ConservativeTransparency.org: Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask

Chris Harris | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: ConservativeTransparency.Org, Tea Party, Astroturf, Federal Election Commission, Politics News

The 2008 elections revealed the country's appetite for change. Yet as Washington takes up the mantle of progress, powerful lobbying firms are spending millions of dollars to keep things the same.

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Greens Have Finally Got the Big Mo

David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lobbying, Accce, Superfreakonomics, Kerry-Boxer Bill, Religion and Spirituality, Lindsey Graham, Us Epa, Veterans, Obama Administration, FACES of Coal, Cejapa, Yes Men, Chamber of Commerce, Lisa Jackson, Astroturf, Climate Action Day, Bonner, Green News

Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.

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Does Astroturf Ever Die?

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: AT&T, Mike McCurry, Free Press, SavetheInternet.Com, Net Neutrality, Matt Stoller, Arianna Huffington, Astroturf, Media News

These fake grassroots groups have scored some amazing successes. Working together with lobbyists and a pack of sputtering media pundits, they've bullied Washington's timid leadership.

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Tea Party Group Accused Of Astroturf Lobbying

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lobbyblog, Tea Party, Astroturf, Politics News

The Washington Independent takes a look at the tumultuous infighting that has caused a rift in the conservative tea party movement. The paper reports...

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Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Washington Post, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Astroturf, Cable One, Fcc, Tom Might, Media News

On Sept. 28, the paper printed a full-fledged editorial against Net Neutrality without revealing to readers that the Washington Post Co. has an economic incentive to block online speech.

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Fighting the Zombies: Ten Ways to Debunk Telco Shills

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Telco, SavetheInternet.Com, Comcast, AT&T, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Mythbuster, Astroturf, Technology News

What does the debate over Net Neutrality have in common with a zombie horror flick? As the phone and cable companies send out a brainless horde of shills and lobbyists, it's not hard to make the connection.

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ACCCE Coal Lobby Targeting Key Democrats In Senate Climate Debate

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, America's Power Army, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, Senate Climate Bill, Accce, Green News

America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, sent an email this week to its Astroturf "army" laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets.

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HHS Investigates Medicare Providers' Massive Misinformation Campaign

Dawn Teo | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare and Medicaid Services, Protest Hhs Humana, Medicare Misinformation, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Astroturf, Humana, Keep Government Out of My Medicare, Humana Mailer, Humana Medicare, Humana Letter, Politics News

Today, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department took its first steps toward cracking down on misinformation disseminated by Medicare providers.

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Glenn Beck: The Loon King

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Glenn Beck, 9/12 March on Washington, Astroturf, Tea Party, Media News

It is a physical hazard watching the Glenn Beck program because you risk rolling your eyes so hard that it could cause ocular injury. Whiplash cases have increased 11 percent.

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CBS: Credulous, Breathless Stenography

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Republican Front Groups, CBS News, American Seniors Association, Astroturf, Cbs, CBS Evening News, Media News

The American Seniors Association serves a radical right agenda. If I can find this out in thirty minutes, why couldn't CBS do at least that much?

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Cooking up Lies with Dirty Coal

Javier Sierra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Big Coal and Big Oil are determined to cover our ears so we can't hear about the overwhelming advantages of the climate and energy bill, especially for us Latinos.

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Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

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What if They Held an "Energy Citizen" Rally and Nobody Noticed?

Chris Savage | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Green Jobs, Energy Citizen, Energy Citizens Rallies, American Petroleum Institute, Michigan, Green Energy, Astroturf, Green Energy Economy, Business News

Could it possibly be that they held an "Energy Citizens Rally" in Michigan and nobody actually noticed? Not one single media source picked it up?

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Consumerist/Ctr for Media & Democracy Protect the US Against Front Groups

Craig Newmark | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Swiftboating, Front Groups, Consumer Reports, Consumerist, Astroturf, Politics News

"Front groups," sometimes called "swiftboaters," are people paid by shady politicians or corporate executives to deceive citizens.

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Green News Report - September 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Accce, Hurricanes, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Clean Coal, Energy Innovation, Energy Citizens Rallies, Coal Industry, Gas Tax, American Petroleum Institute, Swine Flu, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Faces-of-Coal, Solar Energy, Bonner and Associates, Water, Chicago, Green News, Coal Ash, Wildfires, Climate Change, Air Pollution, California Wildfires, H1n1, Astroturf, Solar Power, Global Warming, Lightbulbs, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...

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WaPo Slow to Cover Real Grassroots Climate Actions

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Health Care Reform, Climate Change, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Astroturf, Global Warming, 1sky, Politics News

Local and regional media have been on point about what's going on in their backyards. Unfortunately, local media does not create a national theme

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Bonner & Associates Never Contacted Rep. Perriello and Several Charities Defrauded In Forged Letter Scandal

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: FACES of Coal, Adfero Group, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Coal Scandals, Big Coal, Coal Lobby, Green News

This latest evidence of insincerity and misinformation adds to a growing heap of scandals plaguing the coal industry's attempts to weaken action on climate and energy security.

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Astroturf Attack on Democracy Is Intentional -- and Should Be Illegal

James Hoggan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Astroturf, Bonner & Associates, Christian Coalition, Adfero, Green News

Astroturfing specialists and PR firms Adfero Group and Bonner & Associates have demonstrated that they are guilty, even if what they are doing is -- at this point -- not technically a crime.

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NYT: Time to Make Net Neutrality the Law

Timothy Karr | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Fcc, Congress, Obama, Net Neutrality, Julius Genachowski, Astroturf, Internet, New York Times, Media News

Allowing Internet service providers to become gatekeepers would undermine the democratic nature of the Web, which has made it such a great engine for free speech and economic growth.

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Bonner & Associates Coached Employees To Lie To Generate Letters to Congress - Will Congress Reign In Such Astroturf?

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Green News

The clear solution: end the astroturf loophole in the Lobby Disclosure Act

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Bonner & Associates Spin Machine in Full Gear To Defend Sullied Brand

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Jack Bonner, Accce, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Green News

Where is the rogue temporary employee to defend himself and shed light on the way Bonner's sweat-shop pro-coal lobby operation operates?

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ACCCE Coal Lobby Drops Bonner & Associates Over Forged Letters

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Jack Bonner, Accce, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Astroturf, Bonner and Associates, Green News

Bonner & Associates has a long record of shady Astroturf work on behalf of many polluting industries, pharmaceutical companies and Big Tobacco.

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Support Our Troops: Combat Climate Change

Charles London | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Displaced, vulnerable populations are a breeding ground for extremism and contribute to the instability and failure of states. Now, U.S generals say climate change acts as a "threat multiplier."

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