Publisher's Weekly describes Toxic Sludge Is Good For You as "a chilling analysis of the PR business...a cautionary reminder that much of the consumer and political world is created by for-hire mouthpieces in expensive neckties."

John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote Toxic Sludge in 1995 for the Center for Media and Democracy as the first popular exposé of how corporations and governments wage propaganda through PR firms, front groups, attacks on public interest organizations, anti-book campaigns, greenwashing, and other techniques. More than 100,000 copies have been sold world-wide and it remains every bit as relevant todays -- perhaps more so -- than when it was written in 1995.