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124. See Jonathan Tasini, Lost in the Margins: Labor and the Media (New York: FAIR, 1990), pp. 7–9.

125. Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel, and Chauna Brocht, “Any Way You Cut It: Income Inequality on the Rise Regardless of How It’s Measured,” Briefing Paper, Economic Policy Institute, 2000.

126. Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt, The State of Working America, 2000–2001 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), p. 120.

127. Marc Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, The Social Health of the Nation: How America Is Really Doing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). This study shows that an index of social health indicators moves with GDP until the mid-1970s, after which GDP continues to grow but a “social recession” ensues, with only a slight interruption in the early 1990s.

128. See, among others, Gerald Baker, “Is This Great, Or What?” Financial Times, March 31, 1998; Richard Stevenson, “The Wisdom to Let the Good Times Roll,” New York Times, December 25, 2000. There were, however, occasional cautionary notes, as in Anne Adams Lang, “Behind the Prosperity, Working People in Trouble,” New York Times, November 20, 2000.

129. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1962), p. 183.

130. See Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle, Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health (Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1996), chapters 4, 5.

131. Joe Thornton, Pandora’s Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), p. 100.

132. Fagin and Lavelle, Toxic Deception, chapters 4, 5; Edward Herman, “Corporate Junk Science in the Media,” chapter 17 in Herman, Myth of the Liberal Media, pp. 240–44.

133. The publicity director of Monsanto, Phil Angell, stated that “our interest is in selling as much of it [a bio-engineered product] as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job.” Quoted in Michael Pollan, “Playing God in the Garden,” New York Times Magazine, October 25, 1998.

134. At the January 2000 meeting on the biosafety protocol, the U.S. government’s insistence on WTO “good science,” while the European Union was urging application of the precautionary principle, almost broke up the meeting. Andrew Pollack, “130 Nations Agree on Safety Rules for Biotech Food,” New York Times, January 30, 2000; Pollack, “Talks on Biotech Food Turn on a Safety Principle,” New York Times, January 28, 2000.

135. For a good discussion of the case for application of the precautionary principle, see Thornton, Pandora’s Poison, chapters 9–11.

136. Fagin-Lavelle, Toxic Deception, chapters 3–5; Herman, “Corporate Junk Science,” pp. 232–34, 237–43.

137. Fagin-Lavelle, Toxic Deception, chapter 3; Herman, “Corporate Junk Science,” pp. 232–34.

138. Herman, “Corporate Junk Science,” p. 235.

139. Ibid., pp. 245–48.

140. Ibid., pp. 234–44.

141. Ibid., p. 240; see also Thornton, Pandora’s Poison, chapter 9.

142. John Canham-Clyne, “Health Care Reform: Not Journalistically Viable,” EXTRA! (July–August 1993); Canham-Clyne, “When ‘Both Sides’ Aren’t Enough: The Restricted Debate over Health Care Reform,” EXTRA! (January–February 1994); Vicente Navarro, The Politics of Health Policy: The U.S. Reforms, 1980–1994 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).

143. See Bagdikian, Media Monopoly, pp. xxvii–xxix.

144. See Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

145. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy (London: Verso, 1991), pp. 114–21.

146. Noam Chomsky, “The Media and the War: What War?” in Hamid Mowlana et al., Triumph of the Image: The Media’s War in the Persian Gulf—A Global Perspective (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1992); Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1992); Chomsky, The New Military Humanism (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999); Edward Herman, “The Media’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Persian Gulf War,” in Herman, Myth of the Liberal Media, chapter