Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15972

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Publication type: news

TV Networks Fight Drug-Ad Measure
The Wall Street Journal 2009 Jul 10
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124719323157921305.html

Abstract:

Television networks and other media companies are rushing to try to quash a plan they say amounts to a tax on advertisements for prescription drugs.

The four major broadcast networks — Walt Disney Co.‘s ABC, CBS Corp., News Corp.‘s Fox and General Electric Co.‘s NBC Universal — told House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) in a Thursday letter …