Norma,  
I agree that the article written by James K. Glassman is twisted.  Readers 
might want to view this website for a better understanding of the writer. He is 
considered by some people to be a "Journo-Lobbyist."
http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/jglassman.htm

He is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, which is a conservative 
think tank and leading architect of the Bush administration's public policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute 

Many well know public figures are involved with this Institute including Newt 
Gingrich, Richard Perle, Lynne Cheney (wife of VP Dick Cheney), John Lott 
Jr.--opponent of gun control and author of "More Guns, Less Crime,".....see the 
above website for more.

The news media has in the last 30 some years been transformed into what I 
call a propaganda machine.  A few months back the New York Times Magazine printed 
an article on Toxic Breastmilk.  It was quite long and I believe inaccurate 
but obviously well-researched(although I am sure that some people would 
disagree with me about its inaccuracies regarding toxins in milk).  But the kicker on 
this article was the picture of the author breastfeeding her baby.  
Nice--right?  Wrong....the picture showed a woman that looked like a model for Vogue 
naked to the waist staring at the camera while her infant feeding at the breast. 
  Because the author/mother's eyes were focused on the camera one felt a 
level of disinterest in her baby.  That disinterest coupled with her very 
lipsticked lips made for a very strange picture.  Rather than capturing a mothering 
image, it seemed like a seductive pose intended to capture a male audience.  The 
caption stated that it was the author nursing her baby and her baby's name 
was Emmanualla.  And when I saw that I started laughing.  I use to manage a 
bookstore back in the 70's in which their was an Emmanualla series.  The book was 
an all black cover that caught your eye quickly with red lips (if my memory is 
any good).  It is what we now call soft porn.  It's still around.  Now I know 
people just like the sound of names and may not know that Emmanualla is a 
soft porn series.  But this is sophisticated NY City.  And somehow I could not 
picture this author who wrote a very technical/educational article on toxins in 
milk having this kind of picture circulated with it.  So I tend to think that  
a message was being sent with this article and that message was not only is 
breastmilk toxic, it is soft porn.  And I question who this writer is and 
whether that was really her and her baby.  But then maybe I am wrong in my 
interpretation of this article.  I did send a letter to the NY Times Mag and never got 
a response.

The news media in my opinion is mostly a marketing tool for the aims of 
industry and government.  I think people should read any newspaper article with a 
critical eye and recognize how much news is truly propaganda.
Valerie W. McClain

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