Mark Mathis

Mark E. Mathis is a movie producer and media consultant. He is currently the president of Mathis Media, LLC, a media-consulting firm.

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Biography

Mathis founded and served as executive director of Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy. The website describes him as "a former TV news reporter and anchor turned media consultant and trainer. ... In 2002 Mark published Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity. The book is published in the U.S., China, Russia and India. Mark was a mid-day radio host on 106.3 KAGM. In March 2006 Mathis was a co-signatory on a letter, initiated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in support of an expansion of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. [1]

He is the associate producer for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro-intelligent design movie. Mathis has been criticized for misleading evolutionary biologists PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins to get them to appear in the film.[2] In March 2008 Mathis personally prohibited Myers from viewing the movie, even though he appears in it.[3] In April 2008 XVIVO, an animation company, notified the producers that the company would sue for copying a film.[4]

Books

References

  1. ^ National Organizations Rally for ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Archived 20 May 2010 at WebCite
  2. ^ MacAskill, Ewen. Dawkins rails at 'creationist front' for duping him into film role. Guardian Unlimited. September 28, 2007 Archived 31 December 2010 at WebCite
  3. ^ No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film, New York Times March 21, 2008
  4. ^ Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement National Center for Science Education April 9, 2008

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Articles by Mathis