You can guess how many papers ran with this huge story from the WHO. Not many. It got buried. Newspaper staff are notoriously hard-drinking, so they want to ignore these facts on a personal level, which then shapes the news content. And also, people don’t want to read that alcohol is the ‘international number one killer’ while they’re letting their nightly bottle of red wine breathe by the fire. They don’t want to know. They’d much rather read enabling headlines, such as ‘A glass of red wine is the equivalent of an hour at the gym!’
