the governmental nannyism suggested by this article, or the fact that CNN puts up bullet points of “story highlights” so you don’t actually have to read the articles?

i must admit, i’m hard-pressed to answer my own question. i wouldn’t mind the ban with two modifications:

1) that it only apply to minors (a child labor law, essentially); and
2) that the determination not be of “abnormally thin” based on BMI, but rather a case-by-case determination of the health of any given model.

and as to the CNN bullet points — is this further evidence of a shortening attention span of the general public, or evidence that CNN thinks its readers don’t, well, want to actually read… ?