Media
Ben Bagdikian Interview
Media critic notes influence of tobacco advertising on reporting: "papers that used to sieze upon every disease -- muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, huge articles, pictu…
Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits
Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape
In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. The text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) is now available on this site.
CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology
Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines
A review of 13 magazines across 5 months finds they dispense a lot of health advice but say little about smoking. Over that same period, those magazines ran over 300 cigarette ads…
Daybreak Articles on Tobacco
Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
Death In The West
A movie exposing the most successful cigarette advertising campaign in history, produced in 1976, suppressed in 1979 by Philip Morris, can now be viewed online in its entirety.
Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers
Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco
Tobacco PR man Leonard Zahn, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" scientists, and on reporters and news media, for more than a third of a century.
External Influences on News
Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money
Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry.
Fallout from the Tobacco War
Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand
Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
He Who Has the Gold Rules
Column on media ownership and its influence on how the news gets reported. Example used is RJR's ownership of the Weekly Reader and its coverage for children of tobacco stories.
How Business Strategy Shapes Media
Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.
How Philip Morris Influences Major Media
An internal Philip Morris memo explains how it influences journalists and gets favorable articles and commentaries, through strategies such as sponsoring journalism interns.
Interview of Dr. Stanton Glantz
Frontline interview; covers the Brown and Willaimson documents; the "settlement"; public health activities; the industry. "This is an industry whose whole thinking a…
Lung Cancer Media Coverage
Lung cancer, the leading cancer killer of both men and women, is seriously under-reported when compared to other major cancers, according to a new study.
Me, the Media, and Addiction
Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.
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