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Once we knew what we wanted to do, the first call we made was to our friends at ABC News. TIME and ABC were just wrapping up a joint reporting effort in Iraq, and we were eager to try it again. We also knew that Peter Jennings had a particular interest in obesity. Last December he produced an hour-long report, How to Get Fat Without Really Trying. "I find the subject fascinating," he says. "It's about more than just diet. It's about social behavior, political behavior and the whole issue of personal responsibility and government interference...
...producers at ABC quickly agreed to be our partners at the summit and set to work on a series of reports, including the stories listed here, that will air all this week on Good Morning America, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline. Reports from the series, "Critical Condition: America's Obesity Crisis," will also be featured on World News Tonight Sunday, World News Now, World News This Morning, ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com...
...much of a mood to listen to speechifying about the international mess last week--certainly not to grand expositions of doctrine and principle tethered only vaguely to the horrors on the ground. My guess is, you're losing patience with being orated at as well. Some evidence: An ABC News/Washington Post poll tracked "emotional responses" to the situation in Iraq. The "emotions" measured sounded like a Postmodern parade of Snow White's dwarfs: Angry, Hopeful, Proud, Worried and Frightened. Angry had almost doubled, from 30% to 57%, since March. Hopeful and Proud had taken a hit (although Hopeful...
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...that?s where the grassroots pressure comes in. The food industry will go where its customers lead them. Government ultimately has to heed the voters. ?A million mad moms? - is a phrase that echoes in my ears. There is a role for the media - my colleagues, those at ABC, and elsewhere - to educate moms and dads. Perhaps if we stop playing up the dietary confusion message and emphasize what works in fighting obesity, more folks will get mad, understand what?s at stake, and demand the kind of programs and changes we?ve heard about at this conference. Then...