martha payne began blogging about her school lunch in april and posted pictures rating each meal on its nutrition. the local school board found out and forced her to stop writing. the board leaders said the blog caused lunch ladies to fear for their jobs. after a huge uproar and internet campaign, the council reversed the decision and payne is back to blogging and is using it to raise money for a food charity. >>> he blew away the field last year at congressional. this u.s. open has been a struggle for the defending champ. dave ross is up next with sports. and in honor of summer and, well, just for fun, a group of friends at utah state making a big splash here. they created a 40-foot slip and slide sliding down this cliff here. the video went viral on youtube this week and has had more than 81,000 hits. looks like fun. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly

but what martha payne did was taken pictures of her school lunches and post them on her blog so everyonehow bad the food was. that simple idea sized the world's attention and in the last six weeks her web side got more than three and a half million page views. this isn't exactly the arab spring we're talking about but who hasn't wondered what is in the mystery meat? this is true activism, and you can see the difference it made. here's one of the first photos on martha's blog from early may when she complained, and rightly so this wasn't enough food for a growing kid. compare that to one of her lunches this year. martha scored this 9 out of 10. but after the daily record ran a headline saying, quote fire the dinner ladies, a local council told her to stop taking pictures and putting them online. but you cannot reverse the river of history or unring the bell of liberty or delay the dawn of a new and defining idea. or to it another way, the council backed down after an onslaught of complaints of martha that's fans. including celebrity she have jimmy oliver. good news, the page raised $31 mi

we've actually covered before on happy hour and it was this nine year old scottish girl named martha payne and she started a blog called never seconds and she was having kids from all over the world send pictures and talk about what their school lunches are and it was like this great really cool thing and here's what kevin glass my guest that night had to say about it it's a lot of local governments right there you know you have a church you have you know a young child she was upset with how her local schools being run she starts a blog she gets some action going and she produces you know results and that's the way that we think that society should work is going to show world governments that she's putting it on the internet and have people internationally she's putting it on the internet to put pressure on her local government you know and she gets the she got her parents involved and the rest of the parents in the community involved and that's the way the government should work. what's happening now is the little nine year old is getting censored because you probably many schools you kno