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Article: Philip Morris's Propaganda Machine Gets Jammed.
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- PR Newswire
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- November 22, 2000
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BOSTON, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ --
Executives of Philip Morris will be challenged with a national advertisement aimed at exposing the fraud behind the tobacco giant's public image campaign in the December 2000 issue of Harper's magazine, one of the corporation's staple media markets.
INFACT, the Boston-based national corporate watchdog organization, and Adbusters, an edgy periodical which addresses the manipulation of the public through the media, are presenting the ad as a counterweight to the extensive PR campaign that Philip Morris has been conducting. "As of late, Philip Morris's ads have dedicated themselves to touting the philanthropic endeavors of ...