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...celebrated suit brought by the supermarket chain Food Lion against ABC has frequently been misrepresented as a grand constitutional battle, a conflict over whether the First Amendment lets reporters commit fraud. The recent federal appeals court decision throwing out almost all of the damages against ABC represents a narrowly and wisely drawn opinion that protects press freedoms without giving the news media an open license to violate...
...episode of ABC's "PrimeTime Live," two undercover reporters with hidden cameras applied for jobs and began work at Food Lion supermarkets in North and South Carolina. The footage they produced was aired in 1992 as part of a story accusing the supermarket chain of redating out-of-date beef, bleaching meat to hide its odor and mixing old meat in with new. The day after the PrimeTime Live episode, Food Lion's stock price fell by more than 10 percent...
...this development sets the stage for the "legitimate" national media, who are swooping in on this story like so many vultures. Whereas a week ago the cocaine allegations were relegated primarily to supermarket rags, the new revelations about Hatfield allow the general media to pounce on the more sordid aspects of "Fortunate Son." The New York Times, for example, admitted to receiving an advance copy of the book but decided against printing the cocaine story because they "spent several days looking for evidence that might corroborate Hatfield's account." They came up short, and dropped the story ? until now. Will...
Investigative journalists breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday when a federal appeals court ruled that ABC won?t have to pay supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used...
...fear that caused Tom Furber to found HomeRuns.com an online grocery-delivery business, in 1996. "I was very concerned that somebody else not in the grocery-retailing space was going to beat us to it," says Furber, vice president for Hannaford Bros., the Scarborough, Maine, supermarket chain that saw $3.3 billion in revenues in 1998, and has since been acquired by Food Lion. "In hindsight, we could have gotten into this later...