Environment in Crisis

Front Groups
Front Groups


Description
Gaining Credibility
Hidden Origins
Corporate Funding

Examples
Strategies
Astroturf
Influence
References

 

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Hidden Origins

The names of corporate front groups are carefully chosen to mask the real interests behind them but they can usually be identified by their funding sources, membership and who controls them. Some front groups are quite blatant, working out of the offices of public relations firms and having staff of those firms on their boards of directors. For example:

In Australia, the Forest Protection Society shares the same postal address as the National Association of Forest Industries, (NAFI), It's Executive Director was a founding member of the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI).


© 2003 Sharon Beder