Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24426
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, 17 pages., Brief presented by the Appellees (CBS, et al) in the 1994 Alar case in which Washington State apple growers sued CBS television network for airing a "60 Minutes" program indicating that Alar, a chemical sprayed on apples, had been found to be a potent carcinogen especially dangerous to children.
Slovic, Paul (author) and Kunreuther, Howard (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19694
Notes:
Pages 331-352 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Authors describe four strategies for coping with stigma. Examples of stigma include the Alar scare of 1989: "media-amplified stigmatization" of apples after CBS ran a news story on "60 Minutes" stating that the chemical Alar could cause cancer.
5 pages, Includes discussion about role of the media in the "great Alar scare of 1989" which harmed the apple industry and turned out to be a false alarm.
