KCRA & the Safeway Meat Scandal (12)
Ross went on and on. Charged piled up on top of charges. Various cities, various times. If it were all true, it indicated a systematic and deliberate corporate policy of bilking the consumer.
But if the charges were invalid or distorted, they could perpetrate a serious injustice on the food chain. Consumers' anger with high meat prices was already nearing the boiling point, and it wouldn't take much to set that anger off against a real or imagined villain.
Pete Langlois had pointed out that we would be doing a certain amount of possibly-unwarranted damage to Safeway by airing any story. The mere suspicion of unscrupulous practices could keep large numbers of potential customers away.
There seemed to be no fair way treat the story except in a well-researched investigative report, subjecting all the charges to careful scrutiny.
