A media diet is very much like a real diet . . . mix the different food groups. Nobody says you shouldn't ever eat sugar or ice cream, and nobody says you should eat raw spinach every day. News is one of the most important functions and there's entertainment . . . but the two tend to be blurred together more often.

While all (media outlets) individually have their problems, it's the combination of all of them which is key. TV is like greasy food; I have burgers and french fries every so often. But I wouldn't be surprised to weigh 400 pounds if I ate that every day.

Newspapers are the one medium which force you to see the widest possible viewpoint, with (diverse) op-ed articles and balanced stories.

Overall, we are seeing a decline in risky food consumption, and that may be attributable to published media reports of food borne outbreaks and outreach efforts by the public health community.

Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, literally rotten. But there has to be a first time. Somehow we have to get those first drops of real extra virgin oil into their mouths, to break them free from the habituation to bad oil, and from the brainwashing of advertising. There has to be some good oil left in the world for people to taste.

Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food; some is just added calories.