PBS: Nova Next Commentary

[Cool_Breeze]

From the smiley faces at PBS...no big surprise here

Vaping is far from harmless — NOVA Next | PBS

 

[Firestorm]

Thanks for the link. I stopped reading when I read the name "Dr. Stanton Glantz".

 

[jwbnyc]

Wow. They really didn't do their due diligence there, did they? Lazy journalism at its best? Worst?

That's disheartening to see such a slack job from one of the nations most respected documentary series.

Really bad job NOVA.

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

Thanks for the link. I stopped reading when I read the name "Dr. Stanton Glantz".

And you saved me from even clicking the link. Thanks.

 

[Iron Molly]

PBS (and NPR) get a boatload of funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson & Johnson). There will be no fair reporting on vaping coming from either source.

IMO they are ANTZ. From Wikipedia: "The foundation is headed by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, who was named president and CEO in December 2002. Lavizzo-Mourey succeeded Steve Schroeder, the foundation's president between 1990 and 2002. Under Schroeder's leadership, the foundation played a major role in curbing tobacco use in the US, spending $446 million from 1991 to 2003 toward that goal..."

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Well I knew what to expect from this article, but I decided to read it anyway. Then I decided to send them an email with my comments.

 

[Bill Godshall]

PBS is far left wing, and they've invited and praised Stan Glantz on their shows and articles for 3 decades to promote his causes.

I worked closely with Stan in the 1980's and 1990's to implement smokefree workplace policies and laws, and preserve rights of injured victims to sue cigarette companies.

But during the past decade, Glantz has campaigned to enact the TCA, many unwarranted FDA regulations, outdoor smoking bans, FDA's unlawful 2009 e-cig ban, and the FDA's deeming ban, which is why he's been lying about vaping since 2009.

 

[sofarsogood]

From the smiley faces at PBS...no big surprise here

Vaping is far from harmless — NOVA Next | PBS

I call it semi-skilled propaganda and a hatchet job. Crain's Detroit Business is the only journalism I can point to that I respect.

 

[DC2]

This post says everything I want to say about this...

Just note that it's from a couple of years ago...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...sible-under-regs.556527/page-23#post-12988597

I used to provide a fair amount of funding to PBS.
No more though. Not for a couple years now.