text_1: Eating watermelon could lower your blood pressure
text_2: "This story may have graded much lower, but we think we were generous with a couple of our scores. It is difficult to understand why a news organization would devote time and space to such a preliminary story about a controversial ""condition"" or ""diagnosis"" without even mentioning the controversies. In effect, the paper turned over part of its pages this day to a university news release. That used to be called advertising. Except that the university got it for free. But controversy over ""pre-hypertension"" aside, this story didn’t evaluate evidence, didn’t tell readers about how difficult it is to draw any conclusions from a study in just 9 people, didn’t have independent sources, and didn’t disclose that the watermelon research was funded by the National Watermelon Promotional Board. Rather than reporting on such preliminary research, journalists may want to consider asking tougher, broader questions about the supposed diagnosis of pre-hypertension, which critics such as public health professor Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University says is ""not a condition” but rather ""a way of increasing markets for pharmaceutical companies.” Or, in this case perhaps, watermelon producers."