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...program for next week's Global Health Summit in New York City, which will take place from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3. We will be playing host to several hundred people from different walks of life, all devoted to finding solutions for the health problems in the developing world. ABC News and Charlie Rose will be devoting segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS will be running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival, premiering Nov. 1 to Nov. 3 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Look for our own special report in next week's issue...
...ABC's Primetime Live aired a segment charging the Food Lion supermarket chain with the kind of bad housekeeping that would cause Martha Stewart to faint. Armed with hidden cameras, PrimeTime producers posing as food handlers infiltrated several Food Lion stores to expose alleged wrongdoings, including repackaging old chicken with cosmetically enhancing barbecue sauce and falsifying expiration dates. In addition to disturbing footage, PrimeTime aired interviews with seven current and former Food Lion employees who gave firsthand accounts of the chain's unsanitary handling practices. Moreover, PrimeTime anchor Diane Sawyer noted that producers had collected similar horror stories from more...
...federal jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, found in Food Lion's favor. This week the jury is expected to determine just how much ABC should be punished, a decision that news organizations around the country are awaiting with trepidation. Journalists see the case as a sort of referendum on the undercover reporting tactics that have become commonplace in an era when there is a different TV newsmagazine show on almost every night of the week--not to mention all the local news shows exposing shady auto mechanics during ratings sweeps...
...against caught-you-in-the-act journalism. In 1994 a California jury awarded $1 million in damages to two telephone psychics who claimed that PrimeTime hidden-camera footage, including shots of private conversations that suggested they didn't believe in what they were doing, wrongly portrayed them as scammers. (ABC has appealed.) "There is a public disenchantment to a degree with exploitative journalism," notes Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "And some of the backlash has spilled onto legitimate investigative reports...
...Kennedy School chose Grove and Wei, both of whom applied for the ABC internship through the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...