The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a leftist American-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber. It publishes PR Watch, a quarterly newsletter edited by Laura A. Miller. Stauber and CMD research director Sheldon Rampton have written five books describing what they call the murky world of public relations. Another CMD project is the SourceWatch website (formerly called Disinfopedia), a Wiki, which CMD describes as "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests." Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising facts. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Bold textHello ... Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... John Stauber is an American writer and political activist who co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry. ... PR Watch is a quarterly newsletter whose stated mission is to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns. ... Sheldon Rampton (born August 4, 1957) is the editor of PR Watch, and the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build, manage and sustain a positive image. ... SourceWatchs logo features a magnifying glass through which its name can be seen. ... For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation). ... This article is about the institution. ... Public Opinion is a book on media and democracy by Walter Lippmann. ... Public policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a problem. ... Corporate redirects here. ... A special interest is a person or political organization established to influence governmental policy or legislators in a specific area of policy. ...

CMD has stated that it is not affiliated with a political party, but that it does not pretend to lack opinions or a point of view. It states its opposition to "the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media." In contrast, it favors "grassroots citizen activism that promotes public health, economic justice, ecological sustainability and human rights." // Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ... Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sustainable development. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

The website ActivistCash.com, operated by industry lobby group the Center for Consumer Freedom, describes the Center for Media & Democracy, the organisation behind SourceWatch, as "a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization... it is essentially a two-person operation."[1]. ActivistCash. ... The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), formerly called the Guest Choice Network, is a non-profit U.S. lobby group funded by the food and tobacco industries, [1] [2][3] [4] [5] as well as more than 1,000 concerned individuals, according to its website. ... The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber. ...