About

 

 

This blog represents the viewpoints and opinions of its author, Anne Landman, who also curates the information offered.

Biosketch

I became a Registered Respiratory Therapist in 1982. From 1982-1996 I worked in Grand Junction hospital emergency rooms, intensive care units, pediatric units, at Hilltop Rehabilitation Hospital and finally in home care until 1996. I obtained an Associate degree in Environmental Restoration and Hazardous Waste Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction in 1992 (then called Mesa State College). From 1996-2004 I worked for the American Lung Association of Colorado as head of their Western Region Office.

Tobacco Industry Documents Research

In 1997, while working for the American Lung Association of Colorado, the Attorneys General from 46 states sued the tobacco industry. As a term of the settlement of those lawsuits, the tobacco industry was required to post millions of of the previously-secret internal corporate documents revealed in the discovery phase of these lawsuits on the internet for public viewing. I studied these documents out of curiosity on my own time, and as a result became a professional tobacco document research specialist.

Front page of R.J. Reynolds’ Project S.C.U.M., a project to increase sales of Red Kamel cigarettes to gay and homeless people in San Francisco.

From 2005-06 I completed a 15 month fellowship at the University of California San Francisco’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education headed by Dr. Stanton Glantz, who contacted me and invited me to apply for the fellowship. From 1999-2006 I worked with post-doctoral candidates and academic public health experts to publish studies and analyses of the tobacco industry’s behavior and strategies in major medical journals, including the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the Journal of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Tobacco Control Journal and Social Science and Medicine. I testified as a document archivist in trials against tobacco companies, and based on what I learned from the industry’s internal documents, I became a national and international speaker on corporate PR strategies and tactics. After observing similarities between how the tobacco industry operates and the strategies other big industries use, my interests expanded to include corporate, government and political PR strategies, including tactics like greenwashing, pinkwashing, healthwashing, greedwashing, use of front groups to manipulate public opinion and so-called “corporate social responsibility” programs. From 2006 until 2012 I worked for the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), publisher of PRWatch.org and SourceWatch.org. While at CMD, I started SourceWatch’s Tobacco information portal and served as Managing Editor of PRWatch and SourceWatch. I was also a contributor to DeSmog Blog, now known as DeSmog, which highlights science denial. In addition to corporate behavior, I’m interested in local, state and national consumer scams, unethical corporate behavior, disinformation, public lying, unethical and illegal behavior by politicians, corporations and more. This blog contains news, views and observations that I find of interest, as well as my own original writing and observations. The opinions in the blog are my own.

I live in western Colorado with my husband, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Social Worker and Certified Addictions Counselor, and our amazingly calm, well-behaved, trustworthy, bomb-proof and low-maintenance Roice Hurst Humane Society shelter rescue dog, O.

O, snoozing

 

 

 

Contact me at Anne@AnneLandmanblog.com, or at (970) 823-ANNE (2663)

23 thoughts on “About”

  1. me

    you are a coward anne

    “Please keep comments civil and informative. Refrain from name-calling, taunting, use of profanity, posting any personal identifying information about others and use of personal insults. Violating the Comment Policy can result in termination of comment privileges.”

    what would seamus say ?

    1. Seamus

      I’d probably say, “If you have an issue with me, feel free to take it up with me, instead of crying about it.”

      But, that’d be the adult thing to do.

      So, carry on, I suppose.

    2. Sheli

      It is sad that the first comment on this page is so rude. Looking at everything Anne has done in her life, no one can honestly say she is a coward. She stood up to so many corporate organizations about tobacco…she has earned degrees, and she runs a company that so many people count on to continue their sobriety. If anything, she is COURAGEOUS!!!! I know many, many people that owe their LIFE to Pier 180. Whoever wrote that must have a very sad existence. Continue on conquering the world Anne!! Many people out there LOVE YOU!!

  2. Steven Landman

    In graduate school, we learned the importance of community organizers. Anne represents the role of community organizer in the shadow of Saul Alinsky and others. How great to read someone who does the research and finds the sources without distorted thinking.

    1. Ann’s Fan

      Saul Alinsky is a reach. Your master’s should be revoked just from that comparison alone.

      Ann Landmann is nothing more than a technologically-inept, jaded, angry, small-town boomer bully who is apparently so unsuccessful in her career stalking people on the Internet that she allocates all of $10 per month on Go Daddy to maintain this ghetto website with the sentence structure of an 11 year old. Is her husband really that bad of a therapist that his own wife spends her time harassing her neighbors on the internet like some high school girl who never made the cheerleading squad? The unresolved childhood trauma comes through loud and clear on this pathetic attempt at blogging. Mr. Ann Landmann is clearly unqualified to be advising people on how to reel in their anger when his wife took a page out of the Mean Girls playbook and disparages successful businesspeople in her community. It’s a bad look, really, to be slandering people in her small town who actually put time and money and effort into positively impacting the community. She’s not a community organizer. She’s an unemployed local troll who never matured beyond the age of 11. Who hurt you, Ann? Have you ever considered therapy? Or a chiropractic adjustment? You look like you’re suffering from a lot of neck tension. Or maybe loosen that face mask. You’re the poster child for cerebral hypoxia.

    2. James Tharp

      I too am a devotee of Alynsky. I would appreciate any and all communications regarding you and Ann’s community activism. We must stop the Red Wave that is threatening our democracy.

      1. Wit N Wisdom

        its a red tsunami and nothing will stop it, commie.
        best grab a snorkel cos you are going down.

  6. Eric Farslow

    Dear Anne,
    The City Council is meeting Wednesday Sept 4th 2019 to decide on the Burkey park rezone, and sale, please bring the issue to the people, so they can show the City they are not pleased.
    Thank you

  12. DennisMM

    I would recommend a slightly bolder or at least larger font for your entries. The gray background is dark enough that contrast between it and the text is insufficient for easy reading by folks like me with less than great vision. Thank you!

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