Caruba, A

<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba</a>

<b>Alan Caruba</b> is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_relations" title="Public relations">public relations</a> advisor, a vitriolic critic of environmentalism and founder of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Anxiety_Center" title="National Anxiety Center">National Anxiety Center</a>.</p>

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His personal website boasts that his clients have included or currently include "chemical and pharmaceutical companies, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">think tanks</a>, trade associations, service providers, publishers, authors, and others. Since the 1990s, he has been the public relations counselor for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Jersey_Pest_Management_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Jersey Pest Management Association (page does not exist)">New Jersey Pest Management Association</a>. For ten years, he served as the Director of Communications for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Policy_Center" title="American Policy Center">American Policy Center</a>." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.caruba.com/credentials.htm">[1]</a>

A staunch <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a>, he has also strongly supported the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_with_Iraq&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="War with Iraq (page does not exist)">war with Iraq</a> and advocates similar military action against other countries in the Middle East, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning/v7n48.htm">[2]</a>

Caruba maintains several web sites:</p>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.caruba.com">The Caruba Organization</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anxietycenter.com/">National Anxiety Center</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bookviews.com">Bookviews</a></li>

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<p>Between 1984 and 2004 Caruba also ran the website, The Boring Institute.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11499">[3]</a> The institute's domain address was <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.boringinstitute.com">http://www.boringinstitute.com</a>.

Between 1989 and 1997, Caruba edited a media directory, <i>Power Media Selects</i> for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Broadcast_Interview_Source&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Broadcast Interview Source (page does not exist)">Broadcast Interview Source</a>, a Washington D.C. company. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.caruba.com/where.htm">[4]</a> Caruba is currently listed as a contact for journalists as a public relations expert on the following websites run by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Broadcast_Interview_Source&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Broadcast Interview Source (page does not exist)">Broadcast Interview Source</a>:</p>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yearbook.com">Yearbook.com</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.NewsReleaseWire.com">NewsReleaseWire.com</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.expertclick.com">Expert Click</a></li>

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<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Need_for_disclosure"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Need for disclosure</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Defending_Fumento"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Defending Fumento</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Caruba_brands_SourceWatch_a_.22front_group.22"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Caruba brands SourceWatch a "front group"</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Other_affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Other affiliations</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Contact_details"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Contact details</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#SourceWatch_resources"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">SourceWatch resources</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#References"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Articles_by_Caruba"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles by Caruba</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#Articles_about_Caruba"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">Articles about Caruba</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Need_for_disclosure">Need for disclosure</span></h2>

<p>In 1989, identifying himself as a Public Relations Counselor, he wrote that there was nothing wrong with PR professionals producing PR materials, as long as they disclosed that this was what they were doing:</p>

<p>Many NASW [National Association of Science Writers] members, including myself, function both in the field of public relations and independently as authors of factual articles and other literary materials. So long as we properly identify ourselves as regards these separate activities, nothing, I know of can or should forbid us the right to pursue these two activities.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup></p>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Defending_Fumento">Defending Fumento</span></h2>

<p>In a January 2006 column, Caruba railed against the decision by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scripps_Howard_News_Service" title="Scripps Howard News Service">Scripps Howard News Service</a> to drop <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Fumento" title="Michael Fumento">Michael Fumento</a> as a columnist after <i>Businessweek</i> revealed he had been funded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a> for his 1999 book <i>BioEvolution</i>. "Courageous journalists that they are, Scripps dropped Fumento without even contacting him to determine the truth or falsity of the claim of bias leveled against him in a Business Week column," Caruba complained.

Arguing that the book was accurate Caruba described the Businessweek article as "nothing to do with his ethics and everything to do with a leftist attack intended to smear his reputation and hopefully remove a leading critic of environmentalism and other manifestations of dubious science intended to frighten people." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11499">[5]</a></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Caruba_brands_SourceWatch_a_.22front_group.22">Caruba brands SourceWatch a "front group"</span></h2>

<p>In a comment appended to one of his own articles, Caruba attacked SourceWatch as follows:</p>

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<dd>May I suggest that, instead of SourceWatch, a Green front group that exists to demonize anyone who is a critic of the endless scare campaigns of the environmental movement, that you simply visit <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.caruba.com">www.caruba.com</a> where I provide a complete set of "credentials" that includes membership in the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of Science Writers. Everything I write is, to the best of my ability, carefully documented. Do I think the environmental movement has an agenda and no sense of ethical behavior? Oh, yes! <span class="reference"><sup id="ref_carubaEnergyPulse" class="plainlinksneverexpand"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Caruba#endnote_carubaEnergyPulse">[6]</a></sup></span></dd>

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<p>He did not explain who he believes SourceWatch acts as a front for. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy" title="Center for Media and Democracy">Center for Media and Democracy</a>, which sponsors SourceWatch, publishes <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/finances.html">an easily-accessed list</a> of its major donors on its website.</p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_affiliations">Other affiliations</span></h2>

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<li>Columnist, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_New_Media_Journal.us" title="The New Media Journal.us">The New Media Journal.us</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_details">Contact details</span></h2>

<p>Alan Caruba

The Caruba Organization

28 West Third St. (Apt 1321)

South Orange, NJ 07079

Phone:(973) 763-6392

E-mail: acaruba AT aol.com

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.caruba.com">http://www.caruba.com</a>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="SourceWatch_resources">SourceWatch resources</span></h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Fumento" title="Michael Fumento">Michael Fumento</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Anxiety_Center" title="National Anxiety Center">National Anxiety Center</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Alan Caruba, P.R. Counselor (Summer 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu:8080/n/q/t/nqt88e00/Snqt88e00.pdf">Letter to NASW(pdf)</a>. UCSF Tobacco Documents Archive. Retrieved on 2009-11-22.</span></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_by_Caruba">Articles by Caruba</span></h3>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning/archive.htm">Article index</a></li>

<li>Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.checkbiotech.org/blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=6623">Killing millions to 'save' the earth</a> ", <i>Checkbiotech.org</i>, November 21, 2003.</li>

<li>Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=carubaa&date=050508">Demonizing Doe Run</a>", <i>WEBCommentary.com</i>, May 8, 2005.</li>

<li>Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=9398">Mad Cows Don't Scare Me!</a> ", <i>NewsReleaseWire.com</i>, June 24, 2005.</li>

<li><cite id="endnote_carubaEnergyPulse" style=" font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba#ref_carubaEnergyPulse"><b>^{</b></a></cite>&nbsp};Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ecevent/11-23-05_getting_colder_not_warmer.html">It's Getting Colder, Not Warmer</a>", <i>EnergyPulse</i>, November 23, 2005.</li>

<li>Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11499">Smearing Conservative Writers</a>", <i>NewsReleaseWire</i>, January 29, 2006.</li>

<li>Alan Caruba, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/656">The Greenpeace Scam</a>," NewsByUs.com, June 1, 2008.</li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_about_Caruba">Articles about Caruba</span></h3>

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<li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.caruba.com/credentials.htm">Credentials:Caruba: Public Relations Counselor & Editorial Consultant</a>", <i>The Caruba Organization</i>, accessed May 2005.</li>

<li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/bio.asp?authid=carubaa">Alan Caruba Biography</a>", <i>WEBCommentary.com</i>, accessed May 2005.</li>

<li>Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.progressive.org/stau1099.htm">Flack Attack: Industry P.R. Guys Invent a 'Green Genocide Agenda'</a>," <i>The Progressive</i>, October 1999.</li>

<li>Stephen Goode, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.insightmag.com/news/393146.html">Caruba Proves to be Far from Boring</a>," <i>Insight on the News</i>, March 27, 2003.</li>

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