Washington’s Astroturf Economy
November 18, 2009
Posted by Tim Karr
Astroturf. You may have heard the word or even seen the fake grassroots in action.
Astroturf groups are front operations that take corporate money to promote an industry's policy agenda, covering their tracks behind phony grassroots Web façades.
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