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. American political activist and author Source: prwatch. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... PR Watch is a quarterly newsletter whose stated mission is to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Public relations is, simply-stated, the art and science of building relationships between an organization and its key audiences. ... North Korean propaganda showing a soldier destroying the United States Capitol building. ...

Rampton was born in Long Beach, California. At the age of three, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where his father worked as a musician. Raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he spent two years in Japan as a Latter-day Saint (LDS) missionary from 1976 to 1978. Upon returning to the United States, however, he left the LDS Church, influenced in part by Mormon feminist Sonia Johnson. County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 170. ... Nickname: The Entertainment Capital of the World Motto: Official website: http://www. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ... A Latter-day Saint is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Mormon is a colloquial term used to refer to members of most of the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, a Christian religious movement which began in the 1830s. ... Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. ... Sonia Johnson (February 27, 1936 - ) is a United States feminist activist, writer and outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). ...

As an undergraduate student at Princeton University, Rampton studied writing under Joyce Carol Oates, E. L. Doctorow and John McPhee. Upon graduation in 1982, Rampton worked as a newspaper reporter before becoming a peace activist. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked closely with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), which opposed the Reagan administration's military interventions in Central America and works to promote economic development, human rights, and mutual friendship between the people of the United States and Nicaragua. At WCCN, Rampton helped establish the Nicaraguan Credit Alternatives Fund (NICA Fund) in 1992, which channels loans from US investors to support microcredit and other "alternative credit" programs in Nicaragua. Princeton University, incorporated as The Trustees of Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution to conduct higher education in the United States. ... Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York) is an American writer of novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction. ... E.L. Doctorow, photograph by Jill Krementz, from back cover of Doctorows 1975 novel Ragtime Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. ... John McPhee is widely recognized for his writing on geology. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... The Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN) is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with Nicaraguans to promote social and economic justice through alternative models of development and activism. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... Commonly, Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... // Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the very poor, and includes loans (microcredit), savings, microinsurance and other financial innovations. ...

In 1995, Rampton teamed with John Stauber as co-editors of PR Watch, a publication of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Defenders of the public relations industry regard their writings as one-sided and hostile. ActivistCash.com, a website hosted by Washington lobbyist Rick Berman, has castigated them as "self-anointed watchdogs," "scare-mongers," "reckless" and "left-leaning."[1] In their own profile of ActivistCash.com, however, Rampton and Stauber have stated that the ActivistCash critique contains a number of "demonstrably false claims."[2] 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. ... The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is an American-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist John Stauber. ... Richard Keith Rick Berman (born December 25, 1945 in New York, New York, USA) is an American television producer. ...

Rampton is also a contributor for the open content encyclopedia project called Wikipedia and was the person who coined the name "Wikimedia" which later became the name of the foundation that manages Wikipedia and its sister projects. Inspired by Wikipedia's collaborative writing model, Rampton founded Disinfopedia (now known as SourceWatch), another CMD project, to complement his PR Watch work to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns. Open content, coined by analogy with open source, (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. ... For information on the internal side of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:About. ... The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... SourceWatchs former logo features a magnifying glass through which its previous name, somewhat distorted, can be seen. ... SourceWatchs logo features a magnifying glass through which its name, somewhat distorted, can be seen. ... Public relations is, simply-stated, the art and science of building relationships between an organization and its key audiences. ...

Writings by Rampton

• With Liz Chilsen:
  • Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities (1987)
• With John Stauber:
  • Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (1995)
  • Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? (1997)
  • Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (2001)
  • Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (2003)
  • Banana Republicans (2004)

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External links

• PR Watch
• Sheldon Rampton's home page
• Postel, Danny. Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? An Interview with 'Mad Cow USA' authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. [LiP Magazine, November 1998.]