Media (Tobacco)

Media Sites:

The Cigarette Papers The Cigarette Papers: The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine. (Media) http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty/wiener/files/smoke.html Youth Smoking and the Media Youth Smoking and the Media: A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking. (Media) http://www.impacteen.org/media/home.htm FAIR: Tobacco Wars: The First Casualty Is Candor 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"? (Media) http://www.fair.org/media-beat/940720.html External Influences on News External Influences on News: Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations. (Media) http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/feb15.htm Lung Cancer Media Coverage 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) http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-2001/0001492152&EDATE= Science Writers: Tobacco Industry Turns Heat On 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. (Media) http://nasw.org/users/ASkolnick/naswtob.htm Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines 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. (Media) http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0803/advice.html Press Clips: Tobacco Row 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. (Media) http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9850/cotts.php P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994 P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1994: The 1994 Lost In Smoke Award goes to the Weekly Reader, for reasons mentioned. (Media) http://www.fair.org/media-beat/941214.html The Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War 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. (Media) http://www.pdxnorml.org/Nation030992.html Pro-tobacco Editorial Content of Young Men's Magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000 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. (Media) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/182/a Tobacco Access and Media 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. (Media) http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3123.htm Daybreak Articles on Tobacco Daybreak Articles on Tobacco: Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition. (Media) http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/archives/rsch_r-z.html#Tobacco TV ACRES: Tobacco Products Section 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. (Media) http://www.tvacres.com/tobacco.htm FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money 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. (Media) http://www.fair.org/extra/9409/smoke.html BBC News - Smoking BBC News - Smoking: BBC news items on tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking. (Media) http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/ Selling Doubt Selling Doubt: Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media. (Media) http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/chapter5/3.html Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship: Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry. (Media) http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-30-95/ml-smoke.html The Collaborators The Collaborators: Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it. (Media) http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/collaborators.html The Search for the Smoking Gun 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 (Media) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-02-07.htm The Art Of Manipulation The Art Of Manipulation: Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors. (Media) http://www.artmurals.org/tobacco.htm How Philip Morris Influences Major 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. (Media) http://www.smokescreen.org/list/det.cfm?listid=66&MessageID=243609&SearchString= Quality of Research on Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Different Sponsors 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. (Media) http://www.rwjf.org/health/024783.htm RTNDF Political Coverage Project 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. (Media) http://www.rtnda.org/resources/politics/smtmoney.shtml CJR - Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In 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 comin (Media) http://www.cjr.org/year/96/1/60minutes.asp Accuracy in the Tobacco Settlement Ads of 1997-1998 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. (Media) http://appcpenn.org/appc/reports/s1415rpt.html Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy Tobacco Giant, Media Mogul Get Cozy: Short item on media connections of tobacco giant Philip Morris. (Media) http://www.reseau-medias.ca/eng/news/news/two/rupsmoke.htm USA Today Tobacco Stories USA Today Tobacco Stories: Collection of stories on the tobacco industry, its conduct, and litigation. (Media) http://www.usatoday.com/news/smoke/smoke00a.htm Print Media Coverage of California's Smokefree Bar Law 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. (Media) http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/2.1b-MagzamenMedia.pdf Media Firms Buy Their Way To Political Access 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. (Media) http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg51824.html Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco 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. (Media) http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-03-99-3.html Smoking News - Topix.net Smoking News - Topix.net: News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web. (Media) http://www.topix.net/health/smoking Me, the Media, and Addiction Me, the Media, and Addiction: Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking. (Media) http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/smokeout.html Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand: Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media. (Media) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/smokescript.html Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image: Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending. (Media) http://www.dispatch.com/news/bus00/aug00/396917.html Philip Hilts interview 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 journ (Media) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/hilts1.html Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape 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. (Media) http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tp1.html CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology: Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists. (Media) http://archives.cjr.org/year/95/6/smoking.asp How Business Strategy Shapes Media How Business Strategy Shapes Media: Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporting used as an example. (Media) http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dcroteau/370%20Media/business_ch_5.htm What You Need to Beat Goliath 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. (Media) http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4493 washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Report 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. (Media) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/tobacco.htm The Nation - Selected Feature 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. (Media) http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/POPs_Inc/press_releases/nation-01.htm Smoking Up a Storm Smoking Up a Storm: CBC Online (Canada) series of articles on tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry. (Media) http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/smoking/index.html Philip Morris Complains About Ad Placement 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. (Media) http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddobitcigad.html Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999: Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics. (Media) http://www.ajhb.org/2003/27-1-3.htm Weblog Special: Big Tobacco Weblog Special: Big Tobacco: Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking. (Media) http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,540943,00.html Ben Bagdikian Interview 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 (Media) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies: Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry. (Media) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/10.03/SmokeScreen.html Tobacco Ads Retreat Tobacco Ads Retreat: Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. (Media) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/11/17/p10s1.htm Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising Bibliography on Tobacco Advertising: Bibliography of research and analysis articles on tobacco advertising and promotion. (Media) http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/resources/mchbib/tobacco.html Death In The West 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. (Media) http://www.pyramidmedia.com/spotlight.html Kiss My Ash Kiss My Ash: Article highlights the influence of tobacco ad dollars on news content by way of a personal account. (Media) http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/ash.htm Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine: Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting. (Media) http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/morris.html Fallout from the Tobacco War Fallout from the Tobacco War: Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry. (Media) http://www.ad-mkt-review.com/public_html/air/ai043.html Publishers and their Tobacco Habit 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. (Media) http://archives.cjr.org/year/94/1/cigarette.asp Interview of Dr. Stanton Glantz 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&q (Media) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/glantz.html Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits: Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked". (Media) http://www.midtod.com/bestof.phtml He Who Has the Gold Rules 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. (Media) http://www.ilsr.org/columns/1996/13Feb96.html Partnership for a Drug-Free America: the tobacco connection 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. Reyn (Media) http://www.fair.org/extra/9707/marijuana.html Tobacco Industry Analysis of Newsweek Article 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. (Media) http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/830606showdown.html Censorship in the Media Censorship in the Media: Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media. (Media) http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamedia/nfoshti.htm Tobacco-Free Periodicals Tobacco-Free Periodicals: Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence. (Media) http://www.smokefreebc.org/periodicals.htm Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers: Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz. (Media) http://www.thenetnet.com/readme/smoke.html