How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic
The oil and gas industry was headed for financial collapse long before COVID-19, but now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it on life support. Meanwhile, the American Petroleum...
28 Mar 202022min
From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
Hot Take hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt talk to David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth and deputy editor of New York magazine, about the intersection of climate change an...
25 Mar 20201h 34min
Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role
What can be done about Big Oil disinformation now? New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen and former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson join us to talk about everything from the Fairness Do...
29 Feb 202029min
Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR
E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil and gas companies, and tobacco companies. E. Bruce is considered the father ...
28 Feb 202029min
The Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
John Hill, founder of Hill & Knowlton, was an Ivy Lee devotee who worked for Standard Oil in the 1930s, strategized against labor movements and the New Deal, and wound up representing the American Pet...
27 Feb 202024min
The Origins of Corporate PR Manipulation
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term "public relations" when propaganda started to become a negative term. His specialty was using psychological know-how to manipulate the masses an...
25 Feb 202026min
Guardian Bans Fossil Fuel Ads: Emily Atkin Talks with CEO Anna Bateson
We'll be back with more Mad Men tales next week, we promise! While we're out chasing leads, listen to this great interview from Emily Atkin with The Guardian's interim CEO Anna Bateson about that publ...
18 Feb 202022min
Oil Slick, Part 2: False Equivalence and Free Speech
In part two of our episode on former Mobil VP Herb Schmertz, we dig into how Schmertz's approach bred false equivalence, and why he pushed so hard for the extension of First Amendment rights to corpor...
11 Feb 202015min
