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References
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Anon., 'Public Interest Pretenders', Consumer Reports, Vol. 59, No. 5, 1994, p. 319.

Anon., The Perils of Presenting a False Front, Reputation Management, July/August 1996.

Anon., Hiding Behind Front, Philip Morris Plays into Opponents' Hands, Inside PR 14 October 1996.

Auerbach, Stuart, 'PR gets entrenched as a Washington business', The Washington Post, 18 February 1985.

Beder, Sharon, Ecological Double-Agents, Australasian Science, February 1998.

Beder, Sharon, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, Green Books, Devon UK and Scribe, Vic, 1997, chapter 1.

Bleifuss, Joel, 'Covering the Earth with "Green PR"', PR Watch, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1995) pp. 1-7.

Bleifuss, Joel, 'Science in the Private Interest: Hiring Flacks to Attack the Facts', PR Watch, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1995) pp. 11-2.

Burton, Bob, Wise Guys Down Under: PR's Eco-front Moves on Australia, PR Watch 4(4) 1997.

Burton, Bob, 'Nice names - pity about the policies - industry front groups', Chain Reaction, No. 70 (1994) pp. 16-9.

Carney, Eliza Newlin, 'Industry plays the grass-roots card', National Journal, Vol. 24, No. 5 (1992) pp. 281-3.

CLEAR, Industry Deploys New Anti-Environmental Strategy, 1 Juy 1997.

Deal, Carl, The Greenpeace Guide to Anti-Environmental Organizations (Berkeley, California: Odian Press, 1993).

Faucheux, Ron, 'The Grassroots Explosion', Campaigns & Elections, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1995) pp. 20-30, 53-8.

Grefe, Edward A. and Marty Linsky, The New Corporate Activism: Harnessing the Power of Grassroots Tactics for Your Organization (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).

Greider, William, 'Grassroots organizing, PR-style: Democracy for Hire', PR Watch, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1993) pp. 8-9.

Greider, William, Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).

Holmes, Paul, 1998, Who's Poisoning the Grassroots?, Reputation Management, July/August.

INFACT's Corporate Hall of Shame

Megalli, Mark and Andy Friedman, Masks of Deception: Corporate Front Groups in America, Essential Information, 1991).

Megalli, Mark and Andy Friedman, Fronting for Business - Multinational Monitor, March, 1992.

Maclachlan, Malcolm, 1998, 'Microsoft Not Alone in Planting Grassroots', TechWeb 21 April.

Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber, 'Yes, in your back yard: Flacking at the grassroots level', PR Watch, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1995) pp. 5-8.

Rowell, Andrew, Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).

Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995).

Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton, 1996, 'The public relations industry's secret war on activists', CovertAction Quarterly, No. 55, pp. 18-25, 57.

Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton, undated, 'Deforming Consent: The public relations industry's secret war on activists', Environment Voters


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