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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…
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Safe Under Any Conditions?
Offering young drivers a false sense of security
By Paul F.…
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 (…
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…
For The Media, Blackout Was All About Blame
While the nature of the energy industry has changed since 1965 we
are no…