Name: James Glassman
Profession: Journo-Lobbyist
Corporate Front Group: TechCentralStation / DCI Group
http://www.techcentralstation.com
http://www.dcigroup.com
Techcentralstation a front for a Washington lobbying group DCI Group
From " Meet the press: How James Glassman reinvented journalism--as lobbying."
But TCS doesn't just act like a lobbying shop. It's actually published by one--the DCI Group, a prominent Washington "public affairs" firm specializing in P.R., lobbying, and so-called "Astroturf" organizing, generally on behalf of corporations, GOP politicians, and the occasional Third-World despot. The two organizations share most of the same owners, some staff, and even the same suite of offices in downtown Washington, a block off K Street. As it happens, many of DCI's clients are also "sponsors" of the site it houses. TCS not only runs the sponsors' banner ads; its contributors aggressively defend those firms' policy positions, on TCS and elsewhere.
James Glassman and TCS have given birth to something quite new in Washington: journo-lobbying. It's an innovation driven primarily by the influence industry. Lobbying firms that once specialized in gaining person-to-person access to key decision-makers have branched out. The new game is to dominate the entire intellectual environment in which officials make policy decisions, which means funding everything from think tanks to issue ads to phony grassroots pressure groups. But the institution that most affects the intellectual atmosphere in Washington, the media, has also proven the hardest for K Street to influence--until now.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.confessore.html
Glassman is for sale to highest bidder
Until 2000, for instance, Glassman had written about the government's case against Microsoft on precisely one occasion. (He opposed it.) After Microsoft became a sponsor of TCS, he inveighed against the suit in nearly two dozen columns for the site. He also penned op-eds for another dozen or so publications and appeared on TV to attack a Microsoft breakup in vivid, even strident terms. (On "Crossfire" Glassman argued that one court decision in the suit placed "in jeopardy not just high technology, but, I think, the entire U.S. economy that's been booming.") When it came to the subject of climate change, on which he had seldom remarked before TCS was launched, Glassman became equally prolific, attacking Kyoto or the science of climate change in 40 columns for the site, many of them syndicated elsewhere. Meanwhile, he also took to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Dispatch, and The Washington Times to trash Kyoto; in none of them did he disclose TCS's connection to ExxonMobil.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0312.confessore.html
Techcentralstation directly funded by McDonalds
Techcentralstation has led the attack against Super Size Me, by publishing three articles early in the films festival screenings. James Glassman took the extraorninary step of flying to Austin, Texas to see the film to lend credibility to his attack. Techcentralstation is directly funded by McDonalds - it says so on their "about" page. Glassman is doing for McDonalds what he did for Microsoft and ExxonMobil.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/about.html
Bonus: Glassman's crazy stock market prediction
He predicted in 2000 that the stock market would soon rise above 36,000 Buy the Book