FoodPolice
11/21/2011 6:40 PM ET
Media outlets maintain tradition with anti-obesity reporting heavy on calls for food regulation, taxation, with a side of shaming the overweight.
4/29/2011 1:54 PM ET
"By explicitly tying advertising to childhood obesity, the government is suggesting there is a darker side to cuddly figures like Cap'n Crunch, the Keebler elves, Ronald McDonald and the movie and ...
2/2/2011 12:45 PM ET
This is a news story? Reporter Andrew Martin: "As the nation's obesity crisis continues unabated...Many Americans eat too many calories every day, expanding their waistlines and imperiling their ...
11/10/2010 10:11 PM ET
Under guise of anti-obesity crusade, liberal media ask if soda is 'killing us,' compare it to cocaine and condemn fast food companies for ads.
7/6/2010 12:40 PM ET
MSNBC 'Morning Joe' co-host brags about her new adoration for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for instituting soda vending machine ban.
6/1/2010 5:04 PM ET
Newspaper leads with salt's 'ill effects on the nation's health,' buries study about portion control.
3/31/2010 4:24 PM ET
Cable network continues its pro-regulation, pro-government obesity reporting with extreme examples, lack of critics and calls for government funding.
5/12/2009 8:50 AM ET
Evening newscasts push Center for Science in the Public Interest study about killer salt, downplay individual responbility for food choices.
8/20/2008 1:03 PM ET
Nine of the most business-hurting, freedom-hating and logic-bending regulations and bans on the books - and how the media love them.
7/30/2008 12:11 PM ET
Segment insists characters brainwash kids into eating unhealthy foods, says voluntary standards 'aren't nearly good enough.'