Overview

Ever since the 1970s lobbyists, spin doctors and PR gurus have been slowly but surely hijacking the democratic process in the interests of big business - using smoke and mirrors to sustain the illusion of choice and free-will. In The Cutting Edge , Miller and Dinan go undercover amongst Westminster's most influential lobbyists, reveal the covert activities of corporate spies and expose the labyrinthine network of think tanks and pressure groups busy making sure that the 'news' we are fed 24 hours a day is in line with corporate interests. Most tellingly, they show how the world's most powerful corporate lobbyists can exert their influence on western governments, ensuring that the most pressing issues of our time - poverty, war, climate change - cannot be openly and effectively addressed. As members of a so-called free democratic electorate, we need to know just how corporate spin acts as the cutting edge of global corporate power.

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* 'One of the most important books in recent years... This book draws together some of the most brilliant analysts in the world. I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Robert W. McChesney, author of The Problem of the Media. * 'If you care about our future, read this book.' John McAllion, Oxfam Scotland.

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Professor David Miller and Will Dinan are colleagues in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and have collaborated together on numerous articles on the global PR industry and mass media. David was the editor of Arguments against G8 with Gil Hubbard in 2005 and Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq (2003).

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