KCRA & the Safeway Meat Scandal (23)
I can't help wondering, though, about the rights of another kind of theoretical viewer: one who really tries to find out what's going on, instead of just feeding his existing prejudices.
--No, his existence has never been conclusively proven.
Likewise, no one has established it as irrefutable fact that the so-called "alienation" of the voters who the previous fall had said they liked both George Wallace and George McGovern had anything to do with suspicion of the smoothly incomprehensible way the Establishment in general seems to work--or that the more recent wave of suspicion directed specifically at the media, which has often been explained away as simply frustration with the complexity of modern times themselves, might not actually be the fault of journalists who present only enough of an issue to tantalize and provoke.
At any rate, KCRA wasn't thinking in such terms on the Safeway meat story. The only followup we did was with Safeway.
The chain had filed a lawsuit against Interfaith and the United Farmworkers. The grocers exercised their right to claim that the charges that the farmworkers had filed against them were reckless and defamatory. They had then called a news conference, because they felt the general public might also want to know that.
