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=== Media Coverage of ACSH Ties ===

The conflict between ACSH's hidden sponsors and the views espoused occasionally rates a mention in media coverage too. Writing in the ''Columbia Journalism Review'', Gloria Cooper wryly commented that the ''Today Show'' deserved a "dart" for "failing to meet truth-in-labeling standards". Cooper noted that in a June 12 2003 segment on the Today Show, Whelan had dismissed the suggestion of the New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz that a 1% tax be placed on junk foods. "There is room in life for potato chips and Twinkies and all these other maligned foods if you don't eat huge amounts of them," Whelan said. 

"Point well taken", Cooper wrote, "But one that viewers might well have taken with a mindful grain of salt, had they been given at least a clue to the organization that Whelan represents". [http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/dartslaurels.asp]