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Letter to the editor: Fight fast food companies

by Andrew Cheyne | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, December 12, 2011

In this letter to the editor, BMSG's Andrew Cheyne discusses the importance of creative local policymaking in reducing and reversing childhood obesity.

What we’re reading: More on child rape and describing the unspeakable

by Edward Schumacher-Matos | NPR
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Reporters and editors often avoid stories on child sexual abuse except when a case enters the criminal justice system. They also tend to sanitize their descriptions of such abuse, using terms like “molest” and “inappropriate sexual behavior” and rarely speaking of “rape.” NPR’s ombudsman discusses these and other findings from BMSG’s recent study: Case by case: News coverage of child sexual abuse.

Letter to the editor, re: The language of sexual assault

by Lori Dorfman | The New York Times
Saturday, November 26, 2011

When reporting on sexual assault, journalists should use language that helps readers understand precisely what happened, which often means calling a rape a rape.

Who’s for kids and who’s just kidding?

by David Britt, Lori Dorfman | The Hill
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

A common-sense proposal is on the table to reduce the onslaught of marketing that targets the country's children with nonstop pitches for sugary, fatty and salty foods and beverages. Yet just as the tobacco industry once did, the food industry is lobbying aggressively against it.

The threatening statistics of child sex abuse

by Rob Sachs, Jessica Jordon | The Voice of Russia
Monday, June 27, 2011

A BMSG study on child sexual abuse is mentioned in this discussion of the topic with Teresa Huizar, Executive Director of the National Children's Alliance, and Marielle Sander Lindstrom, Deputy Representative of UNICEF Russia.

Advertisers to blame for childhood obesity in U.S. according to American Academy of Pediatrics

by Jeff Smith | Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy
Monday, June 27, 2011

According to a new statement by the AAP, the amount of time kids spend watching media and targeted junk food ads has contributed significantly to childhood obesity in the U.S. BMSG’s toolkit Fighting Junk Food Marketing to Kids is highlighted within this article as a resource for concerned parents, teachers and community members.

Selling chips inside an insane asylum

by Mario Furloni | GOOD
Thursday, June 16, 2011

In this video, BMSG's Lori Dorfman discusses the implications of some of the food and beverage industry's latest digital marketing tactics used to target youth.

Internet games shaping children’s food preferences

by Sara Israelsen-Hartley | Deseret News
Monday, April 25, 2011

A growing food industry trend links entertainment to food advertisements in hopes of building brand loyalty among kids and grooming future customers. In fact, 92 percent of food- or drink-related websites aimed at kids feature games, videos or forward-to-a-friend options. That and other information highlighted in this article comes from a report that Berkeley Media Studies Group prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Healthy Eating Research" program.

10 things snack food companies won’t say

by WalletPop staff, | WalletPop.com
Monday, November 15, 2010

You won't catch the food industry saying the label "natural" is meaningless or that they spend billions creating and marketing foods that makes kids overweight and obese. But you will find evidence of the latter in much of BMSG's work, which is highlighted in this article.
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