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Richmond, VA CBS TV Station's News (WTVR) just trashed Atkins



 
 
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Old January 20th, 2004, 06:52 AM
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I was watching the 11:00 News a while ago and couldn't believe it. They
did about a full 3 minute "news" story where they:

#1: "Quoted" a New York Times article way out of context, saying that now
that Dr, Atkins is dead, the Atkins Institute has said that people should
not eat red meat and fats.

#2. They interviewed some Bimbo who looked like she weight 120 pounds, who
said that she tried the Atkins diet for eight days lst month and didn't lose
any weight, and she had to quit because "all that meat and fat gave me a
terrible headache." Incredibly, she then said that she is now on the South
Beach Diet because it "lets her eat salads, vegetables and nuts, none of
which are allowed on Atkins." (!) They showed her chopping up lettuce,
celery and other green vegetables for the salad that she said she couldn't
have eaten on Atkins.

They said that the South Beach is a healthier version of a the "low
carbohydrate fad diet" and Atkins is having a hard time "competing."

Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. I waited a while until I was not
so upset, then wrote an e-mail to the TV station pointing out the blatant
errors in the news story and complete lack of balance; I suggested that
their news team needs to research facts better -- maybe by reading Dr.
Atkins' book -- before disseminating false information.

Sheesh!
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Old January 21st, 2004, 08:06 AM
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Default Richmond, VA CBS TV Station's News (WTVR) just trashed Atkins

Must be a CBS thing, the one in Knoxville, TN did the same thing. They had
a short story on the noon broadcast yesterday and then a longer one tonite.
I e-mailed them a link to the adkins.com explanation yesterday and they
still ran with the story today. I think that we should call one of the
other networks and see if they will run a story contradicting the CBS
stories.


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I was watching the 11:00 News a while ago and couldn't believe it. They
did about a full 3 minute "news" story where they:

#1: "Quoted" a New York Times article way out of context, saying that now
that Dr, Atkins is dead, the Atkins Institute has said that people should
not eat red meat and fats.

#2. They interviewed some Bimbo who looked like she weight 120 pounds,

who
said that she tried the Atkins diet for eight days lst month and didn't

lose
any weight, and she had to quit because "all that meat and fat gave me a
terrible headache." Incredibly, she then said that she is now on the

South
Beach Diet because it "lets her eat salads, vegetables and nuts, none of
which are allowed on Atkins." (!) They showed her chopping up lettuce,
celery and other green vegetables for the salad that she said she couldn't
have eaten on Atkins.

They said that the South Beach is a healthier version of a the "low
carbohydrate fad diet" and Atkins is having a hard time "competing."

Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. I waited a while until I was

not
so upset, then wrote an e-mail to the TV station pointing out the blatant
errors in the news story and complete lack of balance; I suggested that
their news team needs to research facts better -- maybe by reading Dr.
Atkins' book -- before disseminating false information.

Sheesh!
--
Peter
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo




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