[CitizensTruth] junk news with your junk food

[Hal Snyder]

I have had some great conversations with persons on this list about  
the connections between food and peace/justice/sustainability.

Here are just a few of the ideas that have surfaced:

What we do to animals we eventually do to one another.
How we treat our bodies is a reflection of how we treat the ecosystem.
Crop monoculture and industrial monoculture carry similar social  
costs and existential threats.

and so on.

The link described between Fox News and McDonalds highlights this  
parallel process.

Hal

Is Rupert Murdoch "Lovin' It?"

Submitted by meg on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:01pm. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

Rumors began circulating around several news Web sites and blogs  
yesterday that McDonald's has a policy to exclusively play FOX News  
on its in-restaurant televisions. Apparently, someone who called in  
to a program on C-SPAN said he had gone to a McDonald's in Missouri  
and asked them to change the channel from FOX to something else.  
Workers there refused, saying they weren't allowed to change the  
channel due to corporate policy. The caller said he then spoke with a  
regional director.  An e-mail written by a C-SPAN watcher who goes by  
"Libby" said that the caller said that the regional director told him  
the policy was due to "bad things on other channels."

A post on Daily Kos said this about the encounter:

"McDonald's was in the process of installing wide screen TVs in all  
of their restaurants over the entire five-state region, and that the  
'FOX News only policy' was corporate policy for all McDonald's  
restaurants in the region. The director also stated that the reason  
for this policy was that McDonald's had determined that there is less  
violence on FOX News than any other channel."

[remainder of article at http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/ 
346 ]



P.S.: see also
Is junk media making you sick???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNLeXefmNw ]


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