| Title | Chapter 12: Smoking Out Objectivity: Journalistic Gears in the Agnogenesis Machine |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Proctor, Robert N., Londa Schiebinger, and Jon Christensen |
| Pagination | 266-282 |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| City | Stanford, CA |
| ISBN Number | 97080804759014 |
| Notes | '\"Modern corporate crisis management came of age on December 15, 1953, when the presidents of six major cigarette companies convened a secret meeting with public relations mastermind John W. Hill in New York to plan a response to alarming scientific evidence that smoking caused cancer. This was not just an acute crisis that could be dealt with in a few news cycles or even a few years. It was a chronic crisis that would have to be managed forever if an industry that caused death was to defy death. The strategies and tactics developed and the lessons learned in the aftermath of that meeting came to define how corporate public relations could use journalistic values to fatally undermine public understanding and encourage ignorance in even the most clear-cut of public health cases.\" (266)\nFour phases that tobacco industry went through (268-9):\n\"fighting science with science\"--persuading journalists that the industry was doing research and that the research\n...\n - mcdevl2'
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