Super-Sized Complaints
(April 1st, 1998)
The recent success of "super-sized" meals has the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and other health activists complaining about the size of hamburgers and soft drinks being served in restaurants. A recent article in the Augusta (GA) Chronicle quotes Dr. Warren Karp, a nutritionist at the...
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Anatomy of a Smear Campaign
(April 1st, 1998)
Want to launch a national media campaign against a particular product or industry? Here's all you'll need: a targeted product or industry, an outlandish accusation, "innocent victims" (usually children), the "bad guys," a parade of "expert witnesses" and, quite often, a gratuitous link to the tobacco industry. The smear...
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