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Some say PR is everywhere now — the industry does everything from selling soap to selling the men who would be president — and that’s just fine. But others say that the fact that PR is so ubiquitous makes it dangerous — and that when an unseen army of PR professionals mixes marketing messages into a citizen’s daily diet of news and information, democracy is at risk.

Guests:

Laura Reis, author of “The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR”

John Stauber, founder, Center for Media and Democracy and PR Watch

Fraser Seitel, author of “IdeaWise”

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For the first time, voters saw President Bush and his opponent Senator John Kerry side-by-side, in 90 minutes of straight ahead debate on Iraq and the war on terror. Bush stuck to his claim that America is safer today with Saddam Hussein out of power. Kerry argued that the president made a colossal error by rushing to invade Iraq. Today we’re inviting top party strategists to make their case about what comes next.

Guests:

Ann Lewis, National Chair of the Women’s Vote Center of the DNC

Dan Schnur, Republican Political Consultant. He was Director of Communications for McCain’s presidential campaign

Carl Cannon,
National Political Correspondent for “The National Journal”;Stanley Fish joins us on the line from Chicago
Dean emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He wrote, “The Candidates, Seen From the Classroom,” for the The New York Times op-ed pages last week