Re: Irradiated Meat

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

This "news" item is what I was talking about some time ago when I said that
what the news industry needs is journalists, but all it seems to have left
is reporters. A journalist would have examined the subject sufficiently to
determine that the information being offered is junk, but a reporter just
barfs up whatever he or she has been fed.

>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two Florida grocers halted sales of irradiated meat due
>to lack of consumer interest, which resulted in paltry sales. DeLoach's
Meat
>Market in Lakeland and Stuart's Fine Foods in Stuart decided to stop
selling
>experimental food products to their customers just days after sales began.

This looks like it was staged. Two store owners leave the new product on the
shelves only a couple of days and then just happen to declare the whole
thing a failure at the same time? Amazing coincidence? And Critical Mass
just happens to have a spokesperson ready with a press release? Another
amazing coincidence?

It's hard to imagine the reporter couldn't tell the whole thing was a
set-up. I guess it didn't matter.
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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
bflood@slac.stanford.edu


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