The War on Cars

Dark PR with Grant Ennis


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In his new book, Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment, Grant Ennis — a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia — identifies the "nine devious frames" that corporations such as automobile manufacturers and road builders use to advance their interests, manipulate the public and maintain a status quo that harms human health and the environment. Dark PR is a thought-provoking book that shines a light on the tactics used by major industries to lock in an unhealthy, unsafe and unsustainable status quo. Ennis offers some food for thought for safe streets advocates as we try to improve our world and fight back against these powerful interests. Special thanks to Cleverhood for their support. For the latest discount code on the best rain gear for cycling and walking, listen to the episode. ***Support The War on Cars on Patreon and receive access to ad-free episodes, exclusive bonus content, stickers, and more.*** LINKS: Buy Dark PR as well as titles by other podcast guests at our Bookshop.org page. Watch "Human Traffic Signals," a PSA from Buick of Shanghai. Here's GM's vision of driving in 1976... as imagined in 1956. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association thinks the solutions to traffic safety are pretty complex.

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