<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cambridge Forum</span></font><br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release November 23, 2010<br><br><br>RENEWING DEMOCRACY: Deadly Spin<br><br>On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at 7 p.m. join <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wendell Potter</span>, currently the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, in discussing his new book, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deadly Spin.</span> As a well paid executive for a major health insurance company, he was on the inside team that created the public relations strategy to challenge threats from government regulation. But after viewing the 2007 Michael Moore film Sicko and taking notes so he could prepare a counter, he found himself agreeing with a great deal of the film. He left his thirty-year career and returned home to Tennessee–he had received a journalism degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville-- and wrote a classic corporate insider, whistle blowing critique, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deadly Spin,</span> praised by Howard Dean and Bill Moyers. In June, 2009, he testified before Congress, giving powerful specifics of industry practices to “dump the sick” to increase share holder value that, in turn, justifies high executive salaries and bonuses. <br><br>What is Wendell Potter’s take on the new health care reform law? How much did industry lobbyists influence its writing? What sections should President Obama and Congressional Democrats defend? <br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at www.cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.</body><pre>
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