ABSTRACT
The grand strategy of business has been to curb the growth in power of three challenging forces: interest groups, media, and government. Foremost, business has sought “to get government off our backs.” To accomplish that paramount goal, business has also had to arrest the growth of consumer, environmental, and other interest groups, which had successfully achieved legislative gains, as the steep rise in regulations in the 1960s and 1970s shows. Because of the pervasive influence of the media on public opinion and political decision makers, business has endeavored to tame the news media.
