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  • FDA cracks down on food porn

    06/16/2009 11:59:56 AM PDT · by chordmaster · 58 replies · 1,741+ views
    WASHINGTON, DC - The Food and Drug Administration unveiled tough new guidelines today designed to regulate certain provocative food advertisements and programming, widely known in the industry as 'food porn'. The new regulations apply to all print, broadcast and cable media, and are to be in effect by August 1st. Supporters of the regulations say the new guidelines are needed to fight the obesity epidemic, and claim that advertisers and network executives have shamelessly exploited food for long enough.
  • Ariz. cop had black men rap away ticket

    12/01/2006 2:01:50 PM PST · by EveningStar · 100 replies · 2,022+ views
    AP - Yahoo ^ | December 1, 2006
    TEMPE, Ariz. - City leaders have apologized after a program on Tempe's cable channel showed a white police officer telling two black men they could get out of a littering ticket by performing a rap. Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman and police Chief Tom Ryff apologized for the show Thursday and suspended its future production after black community leaders voiced outrage and disappointment over it...