Anne Landman

Anne Landman is the Managing Editor of the Center for Media and Democracy. She previously served as the editor of our TobaccoWiki project on our SourceWatch.org website. She has degrees in Environmental Restoration/Waste Management Technology and Communications.
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Views Tuesday, October 25, 2011 "Horror Hotel": The New Frontier of Junk Food Marketing to Kids Today's teenagers are probably the most savvy generation yet when it comes to filtering out advertising, but that is no worry for junk food and drink companies who steadily deploy stealthier and more sophisticated interactive promotions that specifically target teens and exploit their emotional and developmental vulnerabilities. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 18, 2011 BP's Gulf of Mexico PR, One Year Later Finger-pointing over the Deepwater Horizon disaster resumed recently after the U.S. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 04, 2011 Synagro's Shiny New Patina Synagro Technologies is the latest big corporation trying to ditch a scandal-ridden past by re-branding itself. Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 26, 2011 Texas Gov. Rick Perry's National Day of Divisiveness Texas Governor Rick Perry plans to host a "National Day of Prayer and Fasting" on Saturday, August 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, in an event is billed as a "non-denominational, apolitical Christian prayer meeting." Despite the "apolitical" label, the event has some political undertones, particularly since Perry has been Read more |
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Views Friday, June 24, 2011 What Happened to Media Coverage of Fukushima? While the U.S. media has been occupied with Anthony Weiner, the Republican presidential candidates and Bristol Palin's memoir, coverage of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster has practially fallen off the map. Poor mainstream media coverage of Japan's now months-long struggle to gain control over the Fukushima disaster has deprived Americans of crucial information about the risks of nuclear power following natural disasters. After a few weeks of covering the early aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami, the U.S. Read more |
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Views Friday, June 10, 2011 R.I.P., Fairness Doctrine On June 8, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski agreed to wipe the Fairness Doctrine completely off the agency's books, even though the rule has been officially dead since 1987. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 09, 2011 Americans for Prosperity Road Show is Classic Astroturf For some, when the going gets tough, the tough gas up the custom-painted luxury motorcoach. Read more |
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Views Friday, June 13, 2008 Pinkwashing: Can Shopping Cure Breast Cancer? You've heard the term "greenwashing." It refers to corporations that try to appear "green" without reducing their negative impact on the environment. Read more |