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==Ties to tobacco==
In January 1978 The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid ''New York Post'' was said to be (maybe) the only newspaper that runs, almost daily, cigarette ads in color on its back page (the sports section's front page) and in its main news section. (See 1979 article by anti-smoking activist with the headline, "US mag kills controversial story.' "Don't look for all the news that's fit to print in US.' which says tat that the biweekly magazine of the New York Times had killed an antismoking story so as not to offend cigarette advertisers. (Blum) [https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/nhhn0111])
At about the same time [[Andrew Whist]], head of Philip Morris Australia Corporate Affairs (the top tobacco industry lobbyist-executive in Australia) wrote to [[R William Murray|'Bill' Murray]] who was then the rising star of Philip Morris International, then based in Switzerland. He tells Murray that they were having good relations with the Murdoch press in Australia. [https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/xmfn0127]
