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• Arts: Movies: Titles: I: Insider, The  (17)
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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.
• Ben Bagdikian Interview - Media critic notes influence of tobacco advertising on reporting: "papers that used to seize upon every disease - muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, huge articles, pictures of the pitiful victims - never had the same thing about the victims of tobacco".
• Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
• 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.
• The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine.
• The Collaborators - Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fallout from the Tobacco War - Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry.
• Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media.
• 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.
• 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".
• 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 it buys.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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".
• Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media.
• Smoking News - Topix - News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking.
• Youth Smoking and the Media - A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking.

• 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. [PDF] (March 7, 2001)
• 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. (December 20, 1999)
• Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. (November 17, 1999)
• Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry. (October 3, 1996)
• Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry. (October 30, 1995)
• 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. (March 9, 1992)

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