Program Title: Business Sponsored Propaganda, the Media &the Academy
Description: For three decades, Canadian public policy discourse has been increasingly influenced
by think tanks, particularly those with a libertarian or neoliberal ideology. Older style research institutes undertook balanced research on public issues. These newer, business-sponsored think tanks are set up to explicitly promote an agenda of smaller government, deregulation, privatization and tax cuts, an agenda desired by business and the wealthy. The lecture begins with an examination of The Fraser Institute.

Host(s): Charlotte Bourne
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Gutstein is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and a co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-monitoring project in the School. He teaches in the areas of news media analysis, information policy and documentary research.

Credits: Recorded and edited for CJSF by Charlotte Bourne.

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