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. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=4493 Prospect.org~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
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. http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg51824.html Mail-archive.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
The Cigarette Papers The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine. http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v262i0001_10.htm Nationarchive.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
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. http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp Acsh.org~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. Includes the text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) from the never-aired show. http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/tp1.html Motherjones.com~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check