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...Media Institute really enjoyed your Essay. We would have enjoyed it even more if your reference to us had been accurate. We think it will probably come as a surprise to Robert and Linda Lichter to hear that they are anybody's "hired guns," let alone ours. And of course the Media Institute is most assuredly not a lobby of any kind. As for our being a "conservative, pro-business lobby," well, we do not know what that means, but then you do not either...
...survey of 240 editors and reporters at the commercial networks PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and TIME, Political Scientists Stanley Rothman of Smith College and S. Robert Lichter of George Washington University found that 48% believed that the Government should guarantee jobs, 68% argued that the Government should narrow the income gap between rich and poor, and 88% held that the U.S. legal system favors the wealthy. On social issues, 90% believed that women should have a right to an abortion, and only 25% considered homosexuality morally wrong...
Research on the effects of parental cigarette smoking on children began only nine years ago, said Nancy Lichter of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She added that this was the first study she knew of that investigated diminished lung capacity...
...Other investigators have learned that children whose mothers smoke have developmental reading and math difficulties, and infants have double the average number of respiratory illnesses," Lichter said...
Asked whether their mothers smoked, Lichter said that hers had not and Tager said he was "just not sure." Lichter said that she has never smoked and Tager said he quit 16 years ago. "I didn't need this kind of study to know it was bad for me," he explained...