NPR Food Blog Takes On Girl Scout Cookie Menace: 'You're Co-opting Inn

Tim Graham
April 2nd, 2014 7:30 AM
At NPR’s food blog “The Salt” on Tuesday, Eliza Barclay channeled the fat-shamers (with no quote from Michelle Obama) who want the Girl Scouts to stop selling addictive cookies. They don't make the world a better place. Barclay pushed how “a few brave voices argue it's no longer all that delightful to see little girls peddling packaged cookies, or to buy them in the name of supporting the…
 

NPR: Soda Ban Ruling a 'Setback' in Effort to 'Change Unhealthful Food

Ken Shepherd
July 31st, 2013 1:27 PM
As I argued yesterday, the unanimous state court ruling in New York blocking Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ban on fountain soda cups larger than 16 ounces in capacity would be portrayed in the liberal media as a setback to a well-meaning public health effort and a boon to big business. True to form, taxpayer-subsidized NPR is peddling this spin to readers of its website while completely ignoring how…