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Hager, Nicky,

Secrets and lies / Nicky Hager and Bob Burton. - Nelson, N.Z. : Craig Potton Pub., 1999. - 286 p. : ill., facsims., map, ports. ; 23 cm.

Cover subtitle: The anatomy of an anti-environmental PR campaign.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.

"Exposé of how governments & business interests can use public relations to manipulate political debate. The story that emerges is of unscrupulous PR tactics & a casual policy of telling the public what is useful rather than what is true ... based on hard evidence ... leaked by insiders offended at what they saw happening ... in the ... cause of keeping native forest logging going after most New Zealanders believed it should end"--Cover.

ISBN: 0908802579 (pbk.) $29.95

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Timberlands West Coast--Public relations.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anti-environmentalism--New Zealand.
Corporations--Public relations--New Zealand.
Industrial publicity--Corrupt practices--New Zealand.
Public relations and politics--New Zealand.

Dewey Class. No.: 363.7