Comments on: Bankrupcy of Advocacy Journalism http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/bankrupcy_of_ad.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob Smith http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/bankrupcy_of_ad.html/comment-page-1#comment-3154 Bob Smith Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:56:02 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/03/bankrupcy_of_ad.html#comment-3154 <p>The real joke about pseudoephedrine is that it's used as a precursor for meth only in very, very small batches, hardly enough to matter. The big-time industrial producers of meth in Mexico don't steal a few bottles of Sudafed, they have entire factories dedicated to meth production. Cracking down on Sudafed purchases only serves to take business from small local producers and give it to the big cartels, hardly an improvement in drug control policy.</p> The real joke about pseudoephedrine is that it’s used as a precursor for meth only in very, very small batches, hardly enough to matter. The big-time industrial producers of meth in Mexico don’t steal a few bottles of Sudafed, they have entire factories dedicated to meth production. Cracking down on Sudafed purchases only serves to take business from small local producers and give it to the big cartels, hardly an improvement in drug control policy.

]]> By: eddie http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/03/bankrupcy_of_ad.html/comment-page-1#comment-3153 eddie Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:43:41 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/03/bankrupcy_of_ad.html#comment-3153 <p>The over-the-counter decongestant pseudoephedrine (the active ingredient in Sudafed and many others) has increasingly come under restriction because it can be used as a precursor in making meth.</p> <p>Last week I heard a radio commercial for some sinus medicine that has been reformulated to not use pseudoephedrine. The commercial touted this as "helping to reduce violent crime" because of the connection between pseudoephedrine and meth labs. It basically implied that your duty as a patriotic citizen was to buy this sinus medicine instead of others in order to keep your neighbors from being raped by the meth lab scum. I am only slightly exaggerating the tone of the commercial.</p> <p>Here's their press release about it (and remember that it's a press release, i.e. written by a company or organization to push their particular ideas and then usually recycled into "news" without examination by uncritical media looking to fill page counts without doing any hard work): http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20051207/NYW01007122005-1.html<br /> </p> The over-the-counter decongestant pseudoephedrine (the active ingredient in Sudafed and many others) has increasingly come under restriction because it can be used as a precursor in making meth.

Last week I heard a radio commercial for some sinus medicine that has been reformulated to not use pseudoephedrine. The commercial touted this as “helping to reduce violent crime” because of the connection between pseudoephedrine and meth labs. It basically implied that your duty as a patriotic citizen was to buy this sinus medicine instead of others in order to keep your neighbors from being raped by the meth lab scum. I am only slightly exaggerating the tone of the commercial.

Here’s their press release about it (and remember that it’s a press release, i.e. written by a company or organization to push their particular ideas and then usually recycled into “news” without examination by uncritical media looking to fill page counts without doing any hard work): http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20051207/NYW01007122005-1.html

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