Disinfopedia exposes the hype and propaganda of corporate marketing and junk science

• Welcome to Disinfopedia, a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
• Sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy, the Disinfopedia was started in February 2003 and contributors are now working on 5782 articles.
• Censoring Private Ryan: "As American soldiers were dying in Falluja, some Americans back home spent Veteran's Day mocking the very ideal our armed forces are fighting for � freedom," writes Frank Rich in the New York Times.
• Citizen Journalist in the Mainstream Media?: "'Citizen journalism' is one of those buzzwords that's hot in our industry right now," writes Steve Outing of Editor and Publisher.
• "Inviting the public to participate in online news publishing by contributing articles and photographs is likely here to stay -- indeed, it might allow journalism institutions to renew some of the public trust they've lost in recent years by inviting the public in instead of keeping them outside the ropes."
• In nominating Alberto R. Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General, George W. Bush must be hoping that no one will ask about Gonzales' legal advice that torture "may be justified" in the "war against terror," and his calling some provisions of the Geneva Convention "quaint".
• Critics have pointed to Gonzales' stance as the precursor to the torture and intimidation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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