{"id":538,"date":"2006-06-14T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-03-28T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T10:41:18","slug":"one-occasion-where-advertisers-did-not-exert-editorial-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/06\/14\/one-occasion-where-advertisers-did-not-exert-editorial-control\/","title":{"rendered":"One occasion where advertisers did not exert editorial control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s Philip Knightly and the <i>Sunday Times<\/i> Insight team were pursuing the story of how thalidomide, which caused severe birth defects, was marketed as morning-sickness pill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8230;the Sunday Times advertising manager, Donald Barrett had warned [Sunday Times editor] Harold Evans that Distillers [who had marketed thalidomide in the UK] was the paper&#8217;s single largest advertiser, spending \u00a3600,000 a year. Then he added, &#8216;I know that won&#8217;t stop you and it shouldn&#8217;t.&#8217; Immediately the Sunday Times began its campaign, Distillers cancelled all its advertising&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quoted from A Hack&#8217;s Progress by Philip Knightley, excerpted in Tell me no lies: Investigative Journalism and its triumphs, edited by John Pilger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s Philip Knightly and the Sunday Times Insight team were pursuing the story of how thalidomide, which caused severe birth defects, was marketed as morning-sickness pill. &#8230;the Sunday Times advertising manager, Donald Barrett had warned [Sunday Times editor] Harold Evans that Distillers [who had marketed thalidomide in the UK] was the paper&#8217;s single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}