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RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA NETWORK

RESOURCES

"If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."

Scoop Nisker, news commentator, KFOG Radio

Sample Letters to the Editor

• Turning off the Soda Spigot, 8/18/05 (San Francisco Chronicle Editorial)

Rapid Response Letter (PDF)

• Fatter than Ever, 8/25/05 (San Francisco Chronicle Article)

Rapid Response Letter (PDF)

• No Fat Free Lunch, 9/9/05 (Los Angeles Times)

Rapid Response Letter (PDF)

• Governor signs bills to trim obesity in schools... 9/16/05 (San Francisco Chronicle Article)

Rapid Response Letter (PDF)

• House vote favors fast food industry... 10/20/05 (San Francisco Chronicle Article)

Rapid Response Letter (PDF)

• TV ads for junk food tied to obesity, disease... 12/7/05 (San Francisco Chronicle Article)

Rapid Response Letter Published 12/12/05 (PDF)

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California Newspapers

• Fresno Bee
• LA News
• LA Times
• Long Beach Press-Telegram
• Oakland Tribune
• Orange County Register
• Sacramento Bee
• San Jose Mercury News
• San Bernardino County Sun
• San Diego Union-Tribune
• San Francisco Chronicle
• San Francisco Examiner
• Santa Cruz County Sentinel

Other Newspapers

• Boston Globe
• Chicago Tribune
• Dallas Morning News
• Denver Post
• Houston Chronicle
• New York Times
• Miami Herald
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Seattle Times
• Time Magazine
• USA Today
• Wall St. Journal
• Washington Post

Talking Points

• Response to WHI Dietary Modification Study

Link to study in JAMA

• American Beverage Association's new voluntary policy (PDF)

ABA New School Vending Policy

• Taking Action for a Healthier California: Recommendations to Improve Healthy Food and Activity Options (PDF)

Link to Taking Action webpage

• PolicyLink Report: Healthy Food, Healthy Communities:  Improving Access and Opportunities  Through Food Retailing (PDF)

Link to the full report

• Institute of Medicine Report--Food Marketing to Children: Threat or Opportunity? (PDF)

Link to the full report

Media Advocacy Tools

• How to pitch a story (Governor's Summit) (PDF)
• Sample op-ed for Governor's Summit (PDF)
• Berkeley Media Studies Group--Issue 15: Obesity Crisis or Soda Scapegoat?: The Debate Over Selling Soda in Schools

Rapid Response Media Actions

• Full Page Sacramento Bee Ad for the Governor's Summit:

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