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, pictures o…
Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits
Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
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.
Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand
Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
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 and behavior has…
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.
Media Firms Buy Their Way To Political Access
Center for Public Integrity report on media political power covers the connections between the tobacco industry and media, such as $1.1 billion in cigarette advertising, and what i…
Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image
Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.
Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On
How the tobacco industry harrasses journalists and the media to prevent them from running, or get them to water down, stories on tobacco.
The Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War
Article from The Nation discusses on the Partnership for a Drug-Free America discusses its tobacco connections such as Philip Morris funding and free ad space in media that take to…
The Search for the Smoking Gun
Book review of Dr. David Kessler's "A Question of Intent" in The Atlantic Monthly; considers the interesting fact that Philip Morris considered buying The Atlantic Monthly in order…
TV ACRES: Tobacco Products Section
Summarizes tobacco products hawked on TV, including having the stars smoke the sponsor's product on the show, as well as later history of cigars and cigarettes and TV stars; provi…
Youth Smoking and the Media
A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.
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