23. “Goldman Sachs Publicly Supports Financial Reform, but Fights It with Lobbyists,” Adele Hampton, Huffington Post, May 17, 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/goldman-sachs-publicly-su_n_578434.html.
CHAPTER XII: SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
1. Losing the News, Alex S. Jones, Oxford University Press, 2009, 221.
2. “Murdoch Sees Newspaper Future on iPads,” Sylvia Smith, NPC Wire, April 7, 2010, accessed at http://www.press.org/wire/article.cfm?id=2059.
3. “Rocky Mountain News to Close, Publish Final Edition Friday,” Lynn DeBruin, Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 26, 2009, accessed at http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes -friday-final-edition.
4. Losing the News, Jones, 2–3.
5. Ibid., 3–4.
6. “Newspapers Lost 105K Jobs Since 2001,” Erik Sass, MediaDailyNews, Feb. 22, 2010, accessed at http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.printFriendly&art_aid=122901.
7. “The Reconstruction of American Journalism,” Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson, Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 19, 2009, accessed at http://www.cjr.org/reconstruction/the_reconstruction_of_american.php.
8. Losing the News, Jones, xviii.
9. Ibid., 7.
10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Occupational Employment Statistics Survey,” May 2008.
11. Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Common Courage Press, 1995, 272.
12. Toxic Sludge, Stauber and Rampton, 272–74.
13. “Why Is It Taking So Long?,” Brad Collins, Solar Today, January/February 2010, 10.
14. “Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, and the Desperate Need for Better Journalism,” Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Dec. 1, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/journalism-2009-desperate_b_374642.html.
15. Ibid.
16. Losing the News, Jones, 8.
17. Ibid., xviii.
18. Losing the News, Jones, 99.
A Note on the Author
Wendell Potter is the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy. He has appeared on countless television and radio programs and has been quoted in newspapers and magazines across the country. Prior to his twenty-five-year career in public relations, he was a journalist for the Memphis Press-Scimitar and Scripps Howard news service.
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Deadly spin : an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans / Wendell Potter.— 1st U.S. ed.
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