How the media’s language of obesity may have made the sugar tax inevitable
Atanasova, D.
(2016).
How the media’s language of obesity may have made the sugar tax inevitable.
The government’s decision to impose a ‘sugar tax’, announced in the 2016 Budget, should have come as no surprise, writes Dimitrinka Atanasova. Rather it was anticipated based on longer term trends in obesity news reporting – reporting on what has (even) been called a ‘national emergency’.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 04 Apr 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72448 |
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