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Extra! 1998 Ed. 6 – Update June
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June 1, 1998

‘We Paid $3 Billion for These Stations. We’ll Decide What the News Is’

Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, a husband-and-wife investigative reporting team at WTVT, Fox‘s Tampa Bay affiliate, thought they had a dynamite story: Despite promises to consumers, supermarkets in Florida were selling milk produced with rBGH, a synthetic growth hormone developed by Monsanto that boosts milk production. The use of rBGH causes udder infections in cows, […]

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June 1, 1998

Press Sanctions Famine

On April 28, millions of American television viewers saw a news story about Iraq receiving humanitarian aid from a Connecticut-based relief group called AmeriCares. Both CBS Evening News and ABC‘s World News Tonight did reports on the shipments; each network described the AmeriCares mission as in some way “a first” or “pioneering.” “This is the […]

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