Media
Give The Drug Czar Free Ride On Prohibitionist Propaganda Against Medical Marijuana
Initiatives -- 2 Articles
Magazine
Publishers of America Agree To Feature Prohibitionist Propaganda In Content
To Get Share of $775 Million Ad Campaign
Mfiles
Announced On Local MSNBC In Pure Party Line "Journalism"
Media Still Addicted To The Crack-Baby Story:
"The new research still did not fundamentally redirect the media debate."
The
Media, Monica, and Marijuana
Chicago Tribune Article Supports CIA/Crack Connection -- Favorable
Comments On "Dark Alliance"
"The government’s relationships to the media industry, and to
the public, are changing."
The
LATEST RESEARCH! Shows That "Newborns at risk if mom smokes pot"
And "Marijuana can damage human genes." 2 Articles On the Same Study
The Media Switch From Promiscuity To Prostitution.
Program Content To Reflect Prohibitionist Party Line To Get Government Ads
If The Media Cannot Report On the Well-Known CIA Role in the Iran/Contra
Cocaine Business,
How Can They Begin To Tell The Story of Marijuana Prohibition?
This Is
The Problem; Even When The Media Aren’t Lying To Us, They Still Don’t Tell Us
the Truth
Marijuana
Prohibition, Media Criticism, Copyrights and the 8th and 9th
Commandments.
Media
Criticism Nark Style: Indiana Sheriff’s Office Locks Up Reporter Who Had Been
Investigating Him
"Scots
Say No To Legalising Drugs;" Paper Says Yes to Prohibitionist Propaganda; Huge Margin
of Error Not Reported
Wall Street Journal Editorial Proves Marijuana Prohibition Is a
Couterproductive Failure --
So They Blame Parents
Ottawa
Citizen Editorial Deplores Prime Minister’s Support
for New Prohibitionist Agreement At OAS Summit
"Youths
Tie Tobacco Use to Marijuana" -- Reverse Gateway, Reports The New York Times
Important Article
Hazel
Rogers’ Birthday Was On 4/20! And Good Journalism From the Associated Press
Now the Associated Press Has Picked Up the
Story On Canada’s Super "Potent" Marijuana
The New York Times Publishes Five Letters Responding Rationally To
Rosenthal’s Ranting
Peron To Close Club; Sheriff To
"Evict" – For A Day;
The Washington Post Is Bemused; Lungren Confused; I'm Amused
Former New York Times Managing Editor Rosenthal
Denounces "False Compassion" Of Medical Marijuana Proponents
PDFA’s
Propaganda Released On the Internet Hides Margin Of Error That Makes Headline Meaningless
Associated Press Reports Uncritically On A
Partnership For A Drug-Free America Survey
On Kids’ Marijuana Use
Yellow Journalism Has Three Meanings And An Article From Salon Magazine
Proves All Three Apply
"Enforcers Challenge Cannabis Liberation
Movement" In Canada – Great Journalism!!!
Hundreds Of Newspaper Editors Try To Figure Out What To Do About
Reader’s Distrust (Hint: Stop Lying!)
"High
On A Lie"-- The Reader’s Digest Attacks The Medical Marijuana Movement;
Yes, Someone Is Lying
Former L.A. Times
Reporter Jeff Meyers Speech on Media Bias to Santa Cruz Hemp Expo
Dallas Morning News Editorialists Can’t Even Get DEA Medical
Marijuana Party Line Straight
How the Establishment Media Suppresses
Coverage of CIA's Hard Drug Trafficking
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Good
Motives, Bad Journalism, Hemp Cultivation and "The Drug Culture" Revealed
in A Reader’s Complaint
Oklahoma Article Demonstrates How Police Use
Marijuana Arrests to Pad Performance Appearance.
Learning Important Lessons from Bad Journalism
in An Article Supposedly About Hemp
The Portland Oregonian Escalates Its
Propaganda Campaign Against Medical Marijuana Initiative
European Union Supposedly Concerned Hemp
Subsidies Are Somehow Encouraging Marijuana Production
James Brown
Arrested for Medical Use of Marijuana and/or Guns or Something --- I Feel Confused!
Exclusive to Marijuananews -- Marijuana and the Media By
Jeff Meyers -- A Reporter's Inside Story
I am particularly pleased to run this story by
Jeff Meyers because it documents something that I have been complaining about for many
years -- the journalistic malpractice that has done so much to create and sustain the
fraud of marijuana prohibition. It is important to note that what Meyers is reporting did
not happen in some backwater Podunk Daily Sludge. These are the best newspapers and other
media in America.
How The Oregonian Cribs Its Editorials from DEA Handouts
May 6, 1997
To the editors of The Oregonian:
Excerpt: "I read a lot of prohibitionist propaganda in
newspaper editorials, so I was not particularly surprised by The Oregonian's call for the
recriminalization of Oregonians who use marijuana. ("Not Going To Pot" Saturday,
May 3, 1997) What did surprise me was the exceptionally poor quality of the thinking and
the low level of journalistic ethics."
Nahas versus
Kassirer Fraud on Wall Street: How The Wall Street Journal defrauded
the readers of its editorial page.
A lengthy critique.
In January Dr. Jerome Kassirer, the editor of The New
England Journal of Medicine (January 30, 1997 -- Volume 336,
Number 5) wrote an editorial favoring limited medical access to
marijuana, saying, "Thousands of patients with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases
report they have obtained striking relief from these devastating symptoms by smoking
marijuana. The alleviation of distress can be so striking that some patients and their
families have been willing to risk a jail term to obtain or grow the marijuana." This
presented prohibitionists with a strategic problem.
At this point the editorial page editors of the Wall Street
Journal once again called on Dr. Gabriel Nahas to present the prohibitionist party
line. For over 25 years Nahas has been the guru of latter day reefer madness. His works
have appeared frequently in the WSJ and were the source of most of the articles by the
late Peggy Mann in the Readers Digest.
"Mom, Dad, What are
Drugs?"* April 1997
(*Four and a half year old daughter of ABC Television News
Correspondent Bill Ritter, as quoted by her father on ABC Good Morning America.)
How can you define the problem, how can you have
"Straight Talk On Drugs," if you cannot even define the word?
As ABC muddled its way through its month long "March
Against Drugs" it became obvious that the network should have hired Ritter's
daughter, too. At least she asked the question that no one else seems to have given any
thought.
Prime Time Live's
"Junior High" Journalism April, 1997
When the ABC network first announced its "March Against
Drugs" would involve all of its departments, specifically including news, some
journalists expressed their concern that this might compromise the news department's
journalistic integrity. The March 19th installment of its Prime Time Live
newsmagazine demonstrated that this concern was very well founded.
Meet
the Press August 10, 1997
MR. RUSSERT: "How
serious of a problem is using marijuana for medicinal use?"
Medical Marijuana
and the Internet by Richard Cowan
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