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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.
appcpenn.org/appc/reports/s1415rpt.html
- Activist Tells SPJ that Tobacco Companies are Duping the Public - Report on a debate sponsored by the Society for Professional Journalism.
www.cincinnati-spj.org/tobaccospj.html
- BBC News - Smoking - BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking.
news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking
- Ben Bagdikian Interview - "Right from the beginning of mass newspapers, tobacco and disease as a subject was treated differently than all other news...For decades, there was suppression of medical evidence...Then, for a very long time, papers that used to seize upon every disease - muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, huge articles, pictures of the pitiful victims - never had the same thing about the victims of tobacco."
www.uncg.edu:80/psc/courses/jktullos/policy/bagdikian.html
- Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising - Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion.
www.health.usyd.edu.au/resources/mchbib/tobacco.html
- Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
www.midtod.com/bestof.phtml
- Both Sides' Antismoking Ads are the Latest Focus of Tobacco War - Newspaper article on antismoking ads from health organizations and from the tobacco industry.
www.fpdunion.org/Tobacco/Media/media-Inky-5-7-2000.html
- 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.
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tp1.html
- Censorship in the Media - Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/nfoshti.htm
- 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.
www.cjr.org/year/95/6/smoking.asp
- Columbia Journalism Review Resources for Tobacco Reporting - Summary of sources on tobacco for reporteres, editors, and journalists.
www.cjr.org/html/tobacco.html
- 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.
www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0803/advice.html
- Daybreak Articles on Tobacco - Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.
www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/archives/rsch_r-z.html#Tobacco
- Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
www.thenetnet.com/readme/smoke.html
- 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.
no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html
- External Influences on News - Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.
faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/feb15.htm
- 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"?
www.fair.org/media-beat/940720.html
- Fallout from the Tobacco War - Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
www.ad-mkt-review.com/public_html/air/ai043.html
- Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/smokescript.html
- 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.
www.ilsr.org/columns/1996/13Feb96.html
- How Business Strategy Shapes Media - Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporteding used as an example.
saturn.vcu.edu/~dcroteau/370%20Media/business_ch_5.htm
- 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".
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/glantz.html
- Kiss My Ash - Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account.
www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/ash.htm
- Lowell Bergman - Talk and Q&A session with Lowell Bergman at the Commonwealth Club of California about CBS, the movie The Insider, journalism, corporate influences on media, and tobacco power.
www.commonwealthclub.org/newslet/bergman.html
- 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.
www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-2001/0001492152&EDATE=
- Me, the Media, and Addiction - Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking.
interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/smokeout.html
- 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.
www.public-i.org/story_01_092600.htm
- Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image - Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending.
www.dispatch.com/news/bus00/aug00/396917.html
- NewsSynthesis Tobacco News - News portal collects from online news sources, presents headlines.
www.newssynthesis.com/cgi-bin/apexec.pl?etype=clipper&template=templates/template4.htm&f1=index_tobacco
- P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994 - The 1994 Lost In Smoke Award goes to the Weekly Reader, for reasons mentioned.
www.fair.org/media-beat/941214.html
- 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.
www.fair.org/extra/9707/marijuana.html
- 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.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/hilts1.html
- 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.
www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddobitcigad.html
- Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine - Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/morris.html
- 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.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/9850/cotts.php
- Publishers and their Tobacco Habit - Columbia Journalism Review article on connections between cigarette advertising and publisher's policies.
www.cjr.org/year/94/1/cigarette.asp
- 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.
www.rwjf.org/health/024783.htm
- 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.
www.rtnda.org/resources/politics/smtmoney.shtml
- SCARCnet News Archive - Large searchable collection of daily news summarizes on tobacco topics, from 1996 to 1999.
www.kickbutt.org/news/scarchives
- Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On - Tobacco industry harrassment of journalists and the media to kill or water down stories on smoking and the tobacco industry.
nasw.org/users/ASkolnick/naswtob.htm
- Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/chapter5/3.html
- Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry.
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/10.03/SmokeScreen.html
- Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry.
www.monitor.net/monitor/10-30-95/ml-smoke.html
- Smoking Up a Storm - CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry.
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/smoking/index.html
- Suppressing the Dangers of Tobacco - An Old Media Tradition - Essay by a freelance journalist.
www.mdle.com/holhut2.htm
- The Art Of Manipulation - Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors.
www.artmurals.org/tobacco.htm
- The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty/wiener/files/smoke.html
- The Collaborators - Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html
- 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.
www.thenation.com/issue/980706/0706DOWI.HTM
- 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.
www.pdxnorml.org/Nation030992.html
- 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".
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-02-07.htm
- 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.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3123.htm
- Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines.
www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/17/p10s1.htm
- Tobacco Advertising and Counteradvertising - CDC provides graphs, tables, reports, and journal articles on the subject.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/advcoadv.htm
- Tobacco and the Media - Corporate Watch feature on connections between tobacco and the media.
www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/tobacco/media.html
- Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy - Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
www.reseau-medias.ca/eng/news/news/two/rupsmoke.htm
- 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.
www.tvacres.com/tobacco.htm
- USA Today Tobacco Stories - Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation.
www.usatoday.com/news/smoke/smoke00a.htm
- 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.
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/tobacco.htm
- 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.
www.prospect.org/archives/V11-3/starr.html
- CJR - Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In - "Tobacco companies, when faced with damaging exposure, are increasingly resorting to expensive, intimidating, take-no-prisoners litigation to circumvent the First Amendment, strong-arm the press, silence witnesses, and keep important facts from coming to the public's attention".
www.cjr.org/year/96/1/60minutes.asp
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