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It’s hard to turn on a television set and not be bombarded with news about fat — a new warning about the dangers of obesity, a new diet that lets you eat more while the pounds melt away, or the unveiling of a new…
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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting
that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on
at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming
that our teenagers believe they are the…
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January 20, 2004
Claims that global warming will cause
mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic
coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the
United States featured stories…
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December 15, 2003
On Monday December 8 ABC offered a
Primetime Special: Whos to Blame? Obesity in America: How to Get
Fat Without Really Trying. Peter Jennings advanced the notion that
assigning personal responsibility is the…
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December 5, 2003
Having already issued such gems as the
following, we have to wonder why ABC is risking its glass house
Monday night, December 8, palavering about how the obesity
epidemic in the United States is the fault of…
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December 1, 2003
ABCs Meredith Vieiras offered viewers a look into the causes and
costs of obesity without devolving into an indictment of those who
produce and distribute food products in America. Instead, she took
her…
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November 24, 2003
In an article
entitled: Alarms Sounded On Cost of GOP Bills; Lawmakers Increase
Spending to Win Votes Jonathan Weisman continues his bleat to the
effect that the federal government isnt collecting enough…
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November 20, 2003
Conservatives have no problem letting the market rule, whether we
are talking about ideas or the economy. Liberals, on the other hand,
are only in favor of market-driven decisions when the outcome is…
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November 19, 2003
Safe Under Any Conditions? Offering young drivers a false sense of security
By Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. …
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November 14, 2003
Well, who's to blame for the growing childhood obesity epidemic in
America? According to a new report from the Center for Science in
the Public Interest (CSPI), some of the biggest culprits are…
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November 10, 2003
In October 2002 she was
in Washington, protesting President George W. Bushs plan to go to
war with Iraq. She was part of what the Village Voice called a
sprawling mass of 100,000 individuals, families, and…
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November 7, 2003
For The Media, Blackout Was All About Blame While the nature of the energy industry has changed since 1965 we are no more dependent on reliable electricity than upon…
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