Pizza can be healthy, as long as you don't eat the entire pie.
Posted on 08/18/2006 1:51:03 PM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd
Asking “Who is to blame for America’s obesity epidemic” among children, Ann Curry of NBC’s “Today” show introduced a condensed edition of a story to air later that evening on “Dateline NBC.” Reporter Stone Phillips went on to suggest corporate advertising was to blame for America’s chubby kids.
But Phillips left out of his report that his featured psychologist is the co-founder of a group that calls for regulation of advertising to children.
“Food marketing to children is a $10-billion-a-year industry, and some parents’ advocates and lawyers are saying it’s out of control,” noted NBC reporter Stone Phillips as he opened his August 18 story.
To lend scientific authority to these claims, Phillips turned to Harvard psychologist Susan Linn, whom he merely described as “the author of ‘Consuming Kids.’ She says brand names are among toddlers’ first words and logos among the first images they recognize.”
“Kids are requesting brands as soon as they can talk,” Linn told Phillips.
As odd as it sounds that children would say “Cocoa Puffs” before “mommy,” Phillips didn’t question Linn’s assertion. Instead, Phillips went on to show clips of NBC’s Hoda Kotb conducting an experiment with a group of preschoolers and toddlers as she asked them to identify corporate logos.
Even then, Phillips conceded, “they didn’t get” every logo right, even though they “came pretty close.”
But Linn is a dispassionate researcher and neutral scientist, right?
Wrong.
Linn’s consumingkids.com Web site reveals that the Harvard doctor is co-founder of the liberal Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC). “Children are now the focus of a marketing maelstrom, targets for everything from minivans to M&M counting books,” Linn asserts in her biography.
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It has nothing to do with the nine slices of pizza I had last night.
Idiots! It is the easy availability of silverware to blame! Close the Kmart silverware "loophole" and the problem will be solved.
Stone is still cashing his paychecks funded by the advertising of fatburgers on NBC, right?
Put some extra mayo on it, Stone.
I blame parents who give their kids names like Stone.
This just infuriates me, perhaps we should look toward the women that work 65 hours a week, bring home dinner in a paper bag or cardboard box, don't teach or practice good nutrition, too busy yakking on the phone, working a job to get money to buy useless crap like more cellphones or more tv's or video games for their kids to sit in front of while they stuff crap down their throats, advertising has nothing to do with it, the adults are in charge here and they refuse to take responsibility for their actions so they go on guilt trips and give kids whatever they want.....DON'T get me started!!!! end rant!
I blame color television. It's the images of succulent juicy fried chicken, burgers, pizzas, etc. in full living color (and now HD) that plants the subliminal message that you are hungry and need to eat.
NBC should take the lead and change all their programming back to black-and-white so as not to tempt people of *any* age to overeat. Right, Stone? Right? Or should we make the government force you to make the change? </ sarc>
Pizza can be healthy, as long as you don't eat the entire pie.
Time to come up with Cooking Light Magazine for kids, ha!
Sorry, gotta go...dinner at Red Robin...endless fries...
What rubbish. This whole "obesity epidemic" hysteria is all just another bunch of fear-mongering crap by health-nazis and other a-holes who want more power over our lives.
Easy there FRiend.......easy.
By the way, did you know you can deep fry these bad boys!!!?
I should be fine then. I don't watch the ads. I hit the fridge instead.
Hey, better "clam down" before the old appetite kicks in.
I'm getting hungry just reading this thread. Thread? Bread? Sandwich time!!!!
Same here...I just finished a steak sandwich and now am dying for some fries.
More subliminal advertising....
It's nothing more than this woman finding a "niche" and creating her own job. She won't get anywhere.
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