This article is from the Border Mail. I don't like to point fingers at newspapers because they are all equally crap, but this is really crap. The title is crap. The photo is crap and meaningless. The whole idea that parents are basically to blame for child obesity is not well supported and in my opinion also crap.
Update: I just noticed that the government report was called "Weight of Opinion". What is it with obesity researchers and smug word plays in their titles?
It reminds me of a presentation a couple of years ago about contraceptive usage. It wasn't a wordplay, but it was called "A Rising Tide?" The final punchline of the presentation was "... and the data shows that the tide will rise." It managed to make safe sex practices sound quite frightening.
Look, I grew up in Albury and I will NOT stand for others slagging off at the Border Mail – our journal of record. It is thoroughly absorbent and surprisingly soft, with a firm quilted texture.
ben / 9:23pm / 19 April 2007
I should stick to slagging off urban papers – no one gets defensive about SMH.
Ryan / 2:17pm / 20 April 2007
Perhaps, in future, I should also avoid implying that cities with 50,000 people are rural.
Ryan / 2:24pm / 20 April 2007