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The Poverty of Civil Libertarianism
and Students, and two teachers sued to prevent its distribution in the state.
One of the latter said: "I didn't become a teacher to sell Nikes, Colgate
toothpaste and Pringles." New York Times A8 (June 4, 1992). An evaluation
found that students retained detailed memories of the commercial but
knew no more about current events than the control group.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has investigated
payments by doctors to hospitals for patient referrals. One group of
radiologists had to pay half their gross receipts; another paid 25 per cent
of their profits over $120,000. One hospital required pathologists to buy
its billing services; another terminated radiologists who refused to pay
$181,000 for "marketing." New York Times A1 (September 28, 1992).
54 Wasserstrom (1975); Simon (1978); Luban (1984; 1988); Abel (1989a;
1989b); Curran (1977); Mindes & Acock (1982).
55 Guardian 6 (September 27, 1991), 1 (September 19,1991), 4 (September
29, 1991), 2 (October 7, 1991); Observer 9 (September 29, 1991).
In October 1990 the Congressional Human Rights Caucus held hearings
on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The star witness was a Kuwaiti girl, who
described Iraqi soldiers removing 15 premature infants from incubators at
Al-Adan Hospital and leaving them to die on the floor. Representatives Tom
Lantos (D-Calif.) and John Edward Porter (R-lll.) concealed the facts that
she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and
her participation had been organised by a public relations firm representing
the Kuwaiti government. New York Times A15 (January 6, 1991).
66 Los Angeles Times A1 (November 3, 1990).
When the socialist Upton Sinclair won the 1934 Democratic nomination
for Governor of California, MCM head Louis B. Mayer withheld a
day's pay from each of his employees and committed it to supporting the
Republican incumbent Frank Merriam. Dirctor Irving Thalberg formed a
special unit at the studio to produce three shorts entitled "California
Election News," which omitted the MCM logo in order to appear noncommercial.
The first interviewed "average citizens": respectablydressed
actors impersonating Merriam supporters and derelicts representing
Sinclair backers. The second indulged in shameless red-baiting. And
the third depicted bums moving into California and camping in a hobo
jungle in anticipation of the good times they expected under Sinclair.
Merriam came from behind to win. When criticised, Thalberg asserted:
'Nothing is unfair in politics." New York Times s.2 p. 15 (April 19, 1992);
Mitchell (1992).
57 New York Times A1 (April 15, 1992). Some people still are scandalised
when academics are exposed as government spies. Diamond (1992).
68 New York Times C1 (December 6, 1993) A14 (3. 15.94).
69 New York Times B4 (March 9, 1992), B1 (March 11, 1992). The 1950s
"payola" scandal revealed that companies paid disk jockeys to play their
records.
Stars and studios control publicity in other ways. Some insist on
choosing which writer will conduct the interview. Tom Cruise's public
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