Cigarette-sponsor censorship kept the first cancer-link report off televised news

Evidence

When, in 1952, Reader’s Digest published a report linking, for the first time, cigarettes and cancer, the ensuing media sensation somehow never reached the Camel News Caravan. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 443

Categorization

• SEED: A case study in how advertising money influenced public health information flow — connects to the later surgeon general report and tobacco litigation.
• XREF: connects to: Tobacco companies suppressed cancer evidence for decades before paying a $200 billion settlement. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 66