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COMBAT-MONSANTO - Building a world free from Monsanto

Welcome to the new international version of combat-monsanto.org. Now it’s easy for you to view our articles in English, Spanish and French. Our work is going global and citizens of the world can now see the true face of Monsanto.

Within these pages you will find alternative information about Monsanto and the firm’s products: GMO and Roundup, and also bovine growth hormone and Agent Orange.

In the “Protest” section you will find reports from many concerned NGOs and details of their activities. “A world of protest” keeps you informed on protests against Monsanto worldwide.
Finally “The Monsanto System” reveals the firm’s shady methods, describing how it infiltrates public bodies and how it puts scientists under pressure. It also provides a guide to decoding and understanding Monsanto’s propaganda aimed at the public.

Most of these articles precis the information revealed in the documentary “The World According to Monsanto”, an in-depth investigation by the journalist Marie Monique Robin. You can buy the “World According to Monsanto” book and DVD on this website.

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html