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The Obesity Epidemic

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Journalists Affect Public Perceptions

i think journalists are totally disincentivized to actually look into the way that their work is affecting public perceptions and the experiences of actual groups in society. According to harvard, 80 % of americans express some level of anti fat bias. Me, like, we are told to highlight this that we want to have impacts in the world, but like, journalists are not trained to actually take seriously. They're inadvertent impacts, yes. And i think most of the impact of journalism is not deliberate. It's just like myths that we reinforce. It's images that we use. Like headlines with, like all the caviats taken away. I feel like it way i would just

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