For nearly four years, network news programs have presented a skewed view of global warming and the Kyoto treaty that liberal environmentalists claim would cure it.…
Deadly droughts, polar caps melting, forest fires, sweltering heat. Global warming hasn’t hit the news every day, but when it has, it has done so with a bang. Network…
The media gave President Bush consistently negative press about perceived poor job creation and unemployment in the summer of 2004 but their reports were overwhelmingly…
The media have hammered President George W. Bush on the employment issue despite 13 straight months of positive job creation and other good economic news. The October…
The food police are looking to
take a healthy bite out of corporate America. What is their beef?
They think the food industry is making all of us fat. Are they…
Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell is promoting her new book attacking the pharmaceutical industry and urging added government regulations at the same time. She is…
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of…
More and more Americans are obsessed with their weight, and the news media have responded with an abundance of stories about food and fat. But there’s more to the fat story…
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…
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…