Four Corners

Smoke in the Eye (1996x30)

Air date: Sep 02, 1996

By Daniel Schorr. Ex Frontline. This Frontline program looks at how tobacco dollars may weaken the reporting resolve of a nation's media. In 1995, despite having important, damaging accounts from inside the tobacco industry, two major American commercial networks backed away from their stories, at a time when they were subject to multi-billion dollar corporate mergers