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The Origins of Corporate PR Manipulation
Season 3 Episode 6
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term "public relations" when propaganda started to become a negative term. His specialty was using…
6 years, 1 month ago
Guardian Bans Fossil Fuel Ads: Emily Atkin Talks with CEO Anna Bateson
Season 3
We'll be back with more Mad Men tales next week, we promise! While we're out chasing leads, listen to this great interview from Emily Atkin with The …
6 years, 1 month ago
Oil Slick, Part 2: False Equivalence and Free Speech
Season 3 Episode 5
In part two of our episode on former Mobil VP Herb Schmertz, we dig into how Schmertz's approach bred false equivalence, and why he pushed so hard fo…
6 years, 2 months ago
Oil Slick, Part 1: Mobil's PR Mastermind and the Rise of the Corporate Persona
Season 3 Episode 4
Mobil Oil's Herb Schmertz humanized the oil company, creating the "corporate persona," fighting for First Amendment rights to extend to corporations,…
6 years, 2 months ago
Psychological Warfare and Big Oil
Season 3 Episode 3
Daniel Edelman learned the tools of his trade combating Nazi propaganda in WWII, then came home and put his psychological warfare training to work fo…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle
Season 3 Episode 2
Ivy Lee worked with Standard Oil and the Rockefellers to establish the American Petroleum Institute in 1919, as well as a petrochemicals partnership …
6 years, 2 months ago
The Father of Public Relations
Season 3 Episode 1
In order to understand Big Oil's propaganda machine, and why it's been so effective, we have to go back more than 100 years to Standard Oil, John D. …
6 years, 2 months ago
Coming Soon: The Mad Men of Climate Denial
Season 3
Big Oil gave Hitler propaganda tips decades ago and their PR machine has only grown from there. Explore the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the…
6 years, 4 months ago
Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice
Season 1 Episode 13
Young people around the world are taking governments to court over climate change—and winning global attention in the process. We breakdown the Julia…
6 years, 4 months ago
ExxonMobil NY Fraud Trial Recap: What the Verdict Means for Big Oil
Season 1 Episode 12
New York's fraud trial against ExxonMobil closed November 7th. Reporter Emily Gertz and Union of Concerned Scientist's Kathy Mulvey bring us their ta…
6 years, 5 months ago