Remembering this from the "Welcome to Lactnet" message:
<you should post **ONLY** what you are willing to have printed on the
front page of the NY Times>, I smiled at Kate's post:
<The New York Times science section had a short mention of the rickets study
described in the previous post. Mention of breastfeeding was cut; only the
need for calcium was reported. When the rotavirus vaccine was reported on,
breastfeeding as a protective factor was not mentioned either.  I read the
Times every day: I don't think I get all the breastfeeding news I need!>

Perhaps Lactnet posts NEED to be printed on the front page of the NY Times.
Hope you are writing to the editor, Kate.  As someone else said so succinctly,
cutting out the breastfeeding messages shows one's cultural biases.

The Zimbabwe Infant Nutrition Committee, of which I am a member, recently
held a seminar to "conscientize" (good Marxist word that!) journalists about
reporting fairly on breastfeeding issues.  Sigh, I don't think anything has
changed.  The main news bulletin on TV that night shrieked, "Breastfeeding
experts say all women MUST breastfeed!"  Needless to say, that reporter did
*not* stay for the actual seminar, which focused NOT on forcing women to
breastfeed, but on why we feel comfortable still promoting breastfeeding
despite our HIV crisis.

Jacquie Nutt
Harare, Zimbabwe

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