Give an example of how news media provide audiences with social and moral slants on health-related issues, and state why this can have a negative impact.

What will be an ideal response?

An analysis of a decade’s worth of news reporting about weight and obesity discovered that thinness is associated with moral virtue, and obesity is associated with poor personal choices. Such reporting reinforces cultural stereotypes by overlooking both biological causes of obesity and socioeconomic associations such as poverty and the easy availability of cheap and dangerously fat-/salt-soaked fast food.