Re: Irradiated Meat

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Looks like a "Public Citizen" Press Release, not a reporter.

Let's see if it's picked up.  Can HPS, ANS, or? send a Press Release out in
response?

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Bob Flood wrote:
> 
> 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.
> ============================
> Bob Flood
> Dosimetry Group Leader
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> bflood@slac.stanford.edu
> 
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