I read a book: Dark PR
Book: Dark PR: by Grant Ennis
Published: 2023
ISBN: 978-1990263484
Book website: https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment
Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the environment is the book for you if you want to learn the many ways in which your life is influenced by corporate propaganda. The tobacco industry, the sugar industry, motor vehicles, and fossil fuel companies are used as motivating examples. Ennis describes the “devious frames” that these industries use in PR campaigns to prevent meaningful regulations from being enacted. This book is really eye-opening. You think you're a saavy, well-informed citizen and then you read this book and realize the many ways that you've been manipulated. The first half of the book deals with these devious frames, and is a pretty fascinating read. The second half deals with the ways that corporations counteract citizen efforts to organize against them. One memorable detail is the relationship between low-density zoning laws and the decline in civic organizations. Overall, the second half was not as easy/interesting a read for me, but it was successful in making me upset about the decline in our civil society.
Overall: this is a pretty important book and I think many people should read it.