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04/FEB/96 CBS 60 MINUTES - Transcript of the show they finally ran.

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.

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.

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."

Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".

Both Sides' Antismoking Ads are the Latest Focus of Tobcco War - Newspaper article on antismoking ads from health organizations and from the tobacco industry.

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.

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.

Censorship in the Media - Factsheet makes the case for tobacco ads buying silence from major media.

Columbia Journalism Review Resources for Tobacco Reporting - Summary of sources on tobacco for reporteres, editors, and journalists.

Columbia Journalistm Review: Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In - The Columbia Journalism Review is the premier publication on the web about journalism, for journalists. This article examines the journalism issues of the CBS decision.

Daybreak Articles on Tobacco - Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition.

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 - "A tobacco public relations man, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" science, scientists, and scientific organizations for more than a third of a century. He spied on newsmen and newswomen, too."

External Influences on News - Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations.

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"?

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.

How Business Strategy Shapes Media - Chapter from upcoming book examines influence of business interests on media; tobacco reporteding used as an example.

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