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Drug
Czar
Seeks
Deal
With
Hollywood
to
Include
Anti-Drug
Messages
in
Films
7/14/00
(courtesy NORML Foundation,
http://www.norml.org)
Washington, DC: Drug
czar Barry McCaffrey plans to intensify the Office of National Drug Control
Policy's anti-drug media campaign to include government anti-drug messages
in popular movies. At a House subcommittee hearing this week, McCaffrey
announced that he intends to "leverage popular movies" and to work with
studios to promote films that "responsibly communicate anti-drug campaign
messages." McCaffrey testified Tuesday before the House Government
Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human
Resources, in support of his office's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.
McCaffrey said the ONDCP
would not offer government financed incentives for incorporating anti-drug
messages in their scripts, but would offer tax dollars for "promotional
activities and special events that capitalize on the visibility" of films
that feature such messages. McCaffrey has previously offered payment
to television networks and print publications that include anti-drug messages
embedded in the content.
The NORML Foundation filed
a complaint in February with the Federal Communications Commission alleging
the ONDCP program violates federal anti-payola laws.
(Read USA Today's coverage
of ONDCP's new plot at http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000712/2447763s.htm.)
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Issue #145, 7/14/00
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