| Columbia Journalistm Review: Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In - Details on Jeffrey Wigand's interview with CBS, which was a scene depicted in the film.
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| 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 been dominated by avoiding responsibility for its actions".
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| 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.
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| Partnership for a Drug-Free America: the tobacco connection - The Partnership loves to talk about illegal drugs. They are hard pressed to say anything about a drug that kills more Americans than all illegal drugs combined: tobacco. One reason may be, the Partnership has taken cash from Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds.
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| ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? - Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.
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| 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.
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| Philip Hilts interview - Hilts was a New York Times correspondent covering the tobacco beat and has published a book on it. This interview covers the Brown and Williamson papers, industry legal and PR strategy, industry conduct, media response, and industry intimidation of journalists and media.
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| FAIR: Tobacco Wars: The First Casualty Is Candor - A hard look at recent tobacco reporting, primarily on TV news: which facts get reported? Which don't? And what utterances get reported as "fact"?
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| CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review article on Philip Morris's lawsuit against ABC after they ran a hardhitting Day One program on the tobacco industry.
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| USA Today Tobacco Stories - Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation.
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| 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; provides a list of product slogans used on commercials.
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| BBC News - Smoking - BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.
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| Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.
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| 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 of the pitiful victims -- never had the same thing about the victims of tobacco".
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| Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
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| Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
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| Press Clips: Tobacco Row - Explores a connection between $60,000 worth of tobacco ads in Brill's Content and a six-page article in the magazine that bashes the media for "overstating" the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer.
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| Tobacco Access and Media - Poster session from health conference examines smoking in movies, use of media to send anti-tobacco messages, and developing tobacco media campaigns using youth attitudes.
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| Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine - Prizewinning reporting reveals facts about cigarette design and nicotine.
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| Kiss My Ash - Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account.
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| Censorship in the Media - Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media.
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| The Collaborators - Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
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| Accuracy in the Tobacco Settlement Ads of 1997-1998 - Analysis by policy center at the University of Pennsylvania of the accuracy of a major media campaign by the tobacco industry.
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| Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.
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| Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy - Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
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| RTNDF Political Coverage Project - Advice from the pros on how to get and cover politial stories and helpful resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example.
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| The Nation - Selected Feature - Science writer Philip Hilts, who has written about eighty stories on tobacco, twenty-five on the front page, was summarily removed from that beat three years ago after one particularly uncomplimentary story about Philip Morris.
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| 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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| P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994 - The 1994 Lost In Smoke Award goes to the Weekly Reader, for reasons mentioned.
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| Fallout from the Tobacco War - Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
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| Quality of Research on Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Different Sponsors - Research on research examines how sponsorship affects quality and content, and also how media reports the science.
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| External Influences on News - Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
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| How Business Strategy Shapes Media - Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example.
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| Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
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| Publishers and their Tobacco Habit - Columbia Journalism Review article on connections between cigarette advertising and publisher's policies.
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| Daybreak Articles on Tobacco - Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
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| 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 tobacco advertising.
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| The Art Of Manipulation - Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
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| Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image - Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.
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| Philip Morris Complains About Ad Placement - Presents and analyzes a letter that Philip Morris sent to newspapers to complain about where and how its ads ran.
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| washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Report - Washington Post's online library of tobacco stories. Includes breaking news, politics and policy, litigation, health issues, teen smoking, industry news, and opinion.
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| 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 "to influence the public policy agenda and the information flow to the populace".
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| Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
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| 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.
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| Smoking Up a Storm - CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry.
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| Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising - Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion.
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| Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.
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| Me, the Media, and Addiction - Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
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| Tobacco Industry Analysis of Newsweek Article - Interanl tobacco industry memo reveals the history and results of tobacco industry pressure on Newsweek to water down a tobacco story.
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| Pro-tobacco Editorial Content of Young Men's Magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000 - Review of the six leading young men's magazines over 10 years finds 5 pages on smoking and health, over 400 pages of tobacco promotion, and a rising tide of pro-tobacco editorial content.
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| 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.
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| Publishers and their Tobacco Habit - Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the influence of magazine cigarette advertising on coverage of tobacco in those magazines.
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| Smoking News - Topix.net - News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
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| Print Media Coverage of California's Smokefree Bar Law - Content analysis reveals the nature and extent of tobacco industry influence of print media coverage following implementation of California's smokefree bars.
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| Tobacco-Free Periodicals - Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence.
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| Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 - Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics.
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| CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists.
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| 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.
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| What You Need to Beat Goliath - Essay on journalism, the spiked CBS interview, Wigand, the movie "The Insider", and the real world of journalism under pressure.
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| 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 it buys.
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