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1. November 30, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall

   Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme

   By Ryan Chittum

   The investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus is a multilevel marketing company that promises ordinary folks a shot at financial success based solely on their skill at building a sales group that essentially draws on personal social circles: A distributor must recruit customers (usually starting with friends,...

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2. December 6, 2011 11:00 AM

   Besser to Oz: “You Were Right”

   Consumer Reports confirms arsenic-in-apple-juice investigation

   By Curtis Brainard

   After accusing Dr. Mehmet Oz of “fear mongering” for reporting that some brands of apple juice contained high levels of arsenic, ABC News’s senior health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser, was forced to concede last week that Oz was right. In September, the The Dr. Oz show sparked a controversy when it told viewers that it had collected three-dozen...

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3. October 3, 2012 12:00 PM

   BPI’s beef with ABC News

   ‘Pink slime’ defamation suit a long shot, media report

   By Curtis Brainard

   The maker of “lean, finely textured beef,” which critics call “pink slime,” is unlikely to prevail in a defamation lawsuit filed two weeks ago against ABC News, according to most experts quoted in the press. Beef Products Inc. alleges that a string of on-air and online reports that the network produced from March to April amounted to “a month-long vicious,...

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4. September 26, 2012 03:08 PM

   Leaving the news

   A news editor is moving on, but his nerves may not be

   By Thomas Nagorski

   A couple of weeks ago my phone rang—12:25 a.m. The assignment editor, Molly Hunter, was on the line. “This Benghazi thing may be a lot worse than we’d thought,” she said. “We’re wondering about moving a team there.” We spoke long enough to get the mind whirring: What were the options? How grave the danger—to the Americans there, and to...

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5. June 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   The WSJ bakes a bogus trend

   And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal has noticed that some people outside midtown Manhattan buy their wedding cakes from grocery stores: Now appearing at wedding receptions: the supermarket cake. Publix, Safeway and other grocers have started to muscle their way into the fancy-fondant realm, adding new designs and flavors to their bakeries' repertoire to woo brides and grooms who want a custom...

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