Media and Democracy in 2009, Rampton became a website developer, joining an open government initiative led by New York State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin. In 2010, Hoppin and Rampton co-founded NuCivic, an open source software company, which they sold in December 2014 to GovDelivery, a software services company now known as Granicus. Rampton currently works as a software engineer at Granicus. Writings by Rampton With Liz Chilsen: Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities (1987) With John Stauber: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (1995) Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? (1997) Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (2001) Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (2003) Banana Republicans (2004) The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq (2006) References External links PR Watch Sheldon Rampton's home page 1957 births Living people American media critics American social sciences writers Writers from California Former Latter Day Saints Princeton University alumni Propaganda theorists Public relations theorists Historians of public relations American Mormon missionaries in Japan 20th-century Mormon missionaries Framing theorists Wikipedia people