RSVP for Brought to You By launch party
Tues 9/22 at 7pm
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W 64th Street
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Join us to celebrate!
Please join award-winning environmental journalist Amy Westervelt as she sits down with human rights attorney Steven Donziger and founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Profileration Treaty Tzeporah Berman. The three will have an illuminating discussion about how the corporate capture of American democracy has fueled and continues to uphold the climate crisis, and how we can fight back.
These themes are explored in-depth in Amy's powerful new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped The Truth, Conned The Public, And Broke Democracy.
We expect this event to be oversubscribed so please respond quickly if you want to reserve a space.
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A special VIP reception will run from 6pm-7pm. Get an autographed book and have more time to chat one-on-one with Amy, Tzeporah and Steven.
Recommended by BILL McKIBBEN on the EZRA KLEIN SHOW
"A must-read for anyone trying to figure out how we begin to reclaim our democracy." -- NAOMI ORESKES, author of Merchants of Doubt
"A book that every citizen needs to read." -JILL ABRAMSON, author of Merchants of Truth
A gripping account of the corporate propaganda that has invaded our media, our democracy, and now the very nature of truth itself-from investigative reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt.
Whether it's the tobacco industry lying about the health dangers of cigarettes, Big Pharma burying studies that make its products less marketable, or Big Oil misleading the public on the dangers of the climate crisis, we all know corporations use doubt and science denial to avoid responsibility. So why do we continue to let them get away with it?
In Brought to You By, Amy Westervelt exposes the plot hidden within the familiar story of science denial. Over the last century, Big Industry has built a vast apparatus of think tanks, lobbyists, sponsored university labs, and obliging news networks to con the public and fool decision-makers, poisoning the informational ecosystem and warping the nature of truth along the way.
With her signature wit and incisiveness, Westervelt shows how the masterminds of corporate misinformation-people like Herb Schmertz, the public relations pioneer who made Mobil “the thinking man's oil company,” Richard Edelman, the PR guy who helped the dairy industry vilify oat milk, and David Petraeus, the disgraced spy chief using counter- insurgency tactics to discredit climate science, have ushered in an era of unprecedented corporate control.
Only by exposing this well-oiled machine can we begin to repair the social contract; reclaim truth and democracy; and redraw the lines between corporate speech and individual speech, a lie and an opinion, a dollar and a word.