During each 24-hour period, we'd see:
- Nearly 7 hours of reports about heart disease, obesity, and fast food
- 5 1/2 hours of reports about cancer and tobacco
- 1 1/2 hours of reports about strokes
- 1 hour, 40 minutes on lung diseases, the flu (not Bird Flu, just the regular garden variety), and pneumonia
- About 40 minutes on diabetes
- 35 minutes of reporting on Alzheimer's Disease
- 30 minutes about car accidents
- 20 minutes devoted to falls and poisonings and other household accidents
- 20 minutes of reports about suicides
- 10 minutes of reports about murders
- 2 1/2 minutes on drownings
- 2 1/2 minutes about fires
- 60 seconds about train and bus wrecks
- 30 seconds on accidental gun deaths
- 1 second of reporting about terrorism, both domestic and international
- Not even a single second about plane crashes
Do not fear the man who bites the dog.
