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www.newsindiatimes.com – that’s all you need to know Health Disclaimer:The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the authors and Parikh Worldwide Media does not officially endorse, and is not responsible or liable for them. News India Times (January 10, 2025 - January 16, 2025) January 16, 2025 4 Opinion So Long, Corporation For Public Broadcasting don’t know what’s good for them and it’s the govern- ment’s job to correct that has never been widely accepted by Americans. Actual private corporations are also “funded by the American people” – their customers, who pay them in exchange for valuable goods and services. Actual private nonprofit corporations rely on donations from people who choose to give, not tax collections from people who are legally required to give. In 2025, donations to PBS and NPR surged. That makes sense, given that their traditional audiences are far more Democratic than Republican, and Republicans cut off their funding after threatening to do so for decades. The broadcasters should be allowed to serve a Democratic audience, so long as everyone isn’t required to pay for them. PBS and NPR have some popular programming that deserves to compete on a level playing field with private media without government handouts. Public broadcast- ing includes lots of small radio stations that probably don’t need to exist in the internet age. The CPB board’s decision to shut down means that there won’t be any shell into which a future Democratic administration could reinsert funding. That administra- tion, when it arrives, should not waste time reconstitut- ing the CPB. The popular parts of PBS and NPR will live on with private funding. The unpopular parts will disap- pear, and that’s okay. The absence of massive state-funded media is a distinguishing feature of the U.S. that Americans should be proud of. Countries such as Canada or Britain have media ecosystems dominated by government-backed broadcasters. They become constant flash points in political controversies, are plagued with scandals and deaden the national conversation, at the expense of their countries’ people. The freewheeling, competitive U.S. media landscape is more chaotic but also more innovative and befitting the American temperament. The world’s first commercial radio station, first commercial television station, first cable television station, first satellite radio company and first online streaming service were all American enterprises. The CPB’s demise ends the fiction of a government-funded “private” corporation that was always out of step with the American way. Dominic Pino is an editorial writer for The Washington Post Opinion section. -TheWashington Post - Continued From Page 3 T he Trump administration released updated nutrition guidelines that bring back a revamped version of the food pyramid, while urging people to eat less sugar and more protein. The latest version of the federal Dietary Guidelines, releasedWednesday (Janu- ary 7, 2026) by theWhite House, fall short of the dramatic overhaul health officials had pledged to undertake. Many of its key tenets, including eating fruits and vegetables and limiting sugar, have been mainstays of nutrition advice for years. Still, they emphasize many of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s key personal nutrition principles, includ- ing a protein-heavy diet and a stringent approach to added sugars and processed food. “These new guidelines are informed by the best and most reliable research on health and nutrition, particularly as it relates to the role of our diets in the preva- lence of chronic disease in the country,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saidWednesday. “These guidelines are easy to read and understand, so every American, young and old, can access this information that literally has the power to change lives.” The overhaul comes with an updated version of the food pyramid, flipping it upside down to emphasize eating more fruits, vegetables and protein and a lim- ited amount of whole grains. It replaces the current MyPlate graphic, which has served to illustrate federal nutrition advice since 2011. The administration said the changes would impact what food was eligible for federal dollars under food stamp and school lunch programs. Kennedy called the change “the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history” and said the guidelines would discourage “highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates” while recom- mending that people consume no added sugars. “My message is clear,” Kennedy said. “Eat real food. Nothing matters more for healthcare outcomes, economic pro- ductivity, military readiness and fiscal stability.” Kennedy has said he tries to eat foods with no more than three ingredients and has described sugar as poison. The previous version of the dietary guidelines, updated in December 2020, had recommended cooking with vegeta- ble oil in place of fats with higher levels of saturated fat, including butter and lard. The dietary guidelines are typically revised every five years, shape what nearly 30 million children eat in school and influence what millions more consume through federal nutrition programs, including food stamps. They also are a foundation for the advice that doctors and dietitians dole out to patients, though most Americans fall short of meeting the standard. -Bloomberg US Unveils Dietary Guidelines That Up Protein, Urge Less Sugar By Kristina Peterson and Hadriana Lowenkron PHOTO:TOM BRENNER/FORTHEWASHINGTON POST The NPR headquarters in D.C. on May 27, 2025. PHOTO:TheWashington Post A shopper in the produce section of a grocery store in New York. PHOTO:YUKI IWAMURA/BLOOMBERG