...to illustrate the full scope of the drug abuse problem."4s Stutman explains his strategy as follows: In order to convince Washington, I needed to make...reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam war.49 This media campaign appears to have been quite effective: the number of drug-related stories...

..."The media were only too willing to cooperate [in running drug stories] because as far as they were concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam war."56 That July all three major TV networks broadcast seventy-four evening news segments about drugs,...

...to make it a national issue and quickly. I began a lobbying effort and I used the media. Reporters were only too willing to co-operate because as far...New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest reporting to come along since the end of the Vietnam War . . . Dead on Delivery, Robert Stutman Robert...

...Administration's New York representative, Robert Stutman, gave hundreds of interviews to encourage media interest: "I began a lobbying effort and I used the media. The...story to come along since the end of the Vietnam war." All of the major networks followed the reports of these agencies closely in their news programs.7 Katherine...

...the media. The media were only too willing to cooperate, because as far as the New York media [were] concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting...story to come along since the end of the Vietnam war. (p. 217) This campaign appears to have been quite effective. The number of drug-related stories appearing...