>
>
>Also because in its attempt to be balanced, they are missing
>the point.However, I have had that complaint about NPR for some time
>now about many issues.
>   Naomi Bar-Yam
>

Well, here in the US, NPR is probably the most balanced reporting you're
gonna see. :-[   I'm sorry to say that but it's true. And, with all it's
weaknesses... I still don't see this as a report that will do
irreparable damage to our cause. All American news tries to tell their
story from the angle *their* audience would appreciate most. NPR caters
to a rather liberal minded, educated bunch who like to hear the
controversies and then think it through for themselves.

The fantasy that "news" generated in a heavily capitalist economy is
simply the "reporting of facts" is gone with the wind for me, and most
intelligent listeners. It's not the news we need to worry about, really,
it's the advertising. Glitzy advertising, esp. on a television, appeals
to folks who are less prepared to critique it.

Perhaps that is where we are having our problem.... the formula
companies know that TV advertising will actually make a dent in the high
formula feeding rates of the WIC population? I doubt this news coverage
will mean much to that audience at all.

Susan

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