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New York Times Touts ‘Plain Packaging,’ Downplays Impact of Taxes on Tobacco

6/25/2014 2:25 PM ET
Business story supports pro-regulatory position of Times editorial board which attacked tobacco 24 times in two years.
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USA Today Hypes Anti-Gun Study by Lefty Advocacy Group on Front Page

3/6/2013 3:10 PM ET
New study by Soros-linked Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation claims ‘gun violence’ costs $12 billion every year.

Soda Pop As Dangerous as Cigarettes?

5/19/2010 1:08 PM ET
Economics writer David Leonhardt gets a little melodramatic: "Someday, we will probably look back on our gallon-a-week soda habit the way we now look back on allowing children to ride without seat ...

Soda = Big Tobacco, According to No-Fun NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman

2/15/2010 1:57 PM ET
In addition some copy editor at the Times has a puritanical relationship with snacks: To help dam the river of sugared drinks that Americans pour into ever-fatter bodies each year, some suggest a ...

'Mad Money' Cramer: 'Demonize' Unhealthy Foods to 'Embarrass People' to Lower Health Costs

8/10/2009 4:33 PM ET
Financial advice host advocates using publicity tactics similar to what was used against the tobacco business to influence behavior.

Media Accuse Cancer Research of 'Concealing' Funding

3/27/2008 4:07 PM ET
Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine rejected by media because of funding, not science.

No Respect for the Dead

3/6/2008 3:59 PM ET
The Times finds it necessary to bring up a scientist and global warming skeptic's ties to the tobacco industry in an obituary.

Thou Shalt Tax Every Sin

7/25/2007 6:21 PM ET
Taxation is media solution to funding its preferred causes and punishing 'wrong' behavior like smoking, eating junk food and spewing carbon.

A Rarely Seen Side of the Tobacco Story

3/27/2007 4:20 PM ET
WSJ shows one alternative to tobacco is ... tobacco?
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