The PR firm Porter Novelli is helping the Business Roundtable, an organization of U.S. corporate CEOs, promote its "Climate RESOLVE" program, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports.

"The most important type of story is that which casts doubt on the cause and effect theory of smoking and cancer," read one internal Council for Tobacco Research memo presented by the U.S. Justice Department on the first day of the largest civil racketeering trial brought by the government.

Slate magazine editor Jack Schafer wonders why it took CBS anchorman Dan Rather so long to back away from two now-discredited memos that were part of the documentation for its story about George Bush's National Guard service.