John Stauber - John Stauber founded the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy and its quarterly newsmagazine PR Watch in 1993 and since has served as the Center's executive director. He is an investigative writer, public speaker and democracy advocate whose leadership on controversial public issues began in the 1960s growing up in a Republican family in Marshfield, Wisconsin, home town of President Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. In high school Stauber dedicated himself to an autodidactic education and organized to stop the U.S. war in Vietnam and for the first Earth Day. He has since begun or worked with many citizen advocacy and public interest groups.
John Stauber offers The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq.
Co-author with Sheldon Rampton of the popular "Weapons of Mass Deception" and several other recent books, and founder and director of the Center for Media and Democracy, Stauber reveals the potent cocktail of deceit, arrogance, and wishful thinking that got us where we are today, and further reveals the way in which the media, by refusing to question a good deal of information coming from the Bush administration, has played a significant role. "The Best War Ever" proves that the entire war has been predicated upon willful misinformation and propaganda - and also teaches us how to wake up and not be misled again.- Cody's Books
John Stauber founded the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy and its quarterly newsmagazine PR Watch in 1993 and since has served as the Center's executive director. He is an investigative writer, public speaker and democracy advocate.
Excellent presentation on war of historical perspective of Iraq. It analyze the propaganda that engulfs this war and how it has led to self - delusion by those who carry it out. Nothing specific that can be adapted to the presentation suitation of living. Here one can learn that how a brutal dictatorship was adopted.
I agree with what this guy says, and I think he's smart and proves a lot of what he says, but there's this guy who questions and challenges his thoughts at the end, and I don't think he was expecting that, so his face gets kinda red and he avoids the question. I thought it would've been wise for him to respond and debunk the guy.