Subject:  Reasons to Eat Organic and 'Kill' your TV (Borlin).
Date:     Mon, 08 Jan 2001 163522 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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........From EMF-L.......

Have you heard of any "editorial intervention" to **discourage** 
reporting on the EMF-L issue....??  I have!!!........

Also, many of my long-time readers will remember that the same John
Stossel (mentioned below) -- accused of "taking bribes" (in the
form of high "lecture" fees) and "fabricating" his organic foods
science report -- did a **hatchet job** on EMF a few years back.  
He totally debunked the notion that there might be any hazard, 
as I remember.   hmmmmnnnnnn.......guru.......

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Subject: OBRL - More Reasons to Eat Organic, and Kill your TV
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:08:47 +0100
From: WILLE B…RLIN 
Reply-To: obrl-news@lists.village.virginia.edu
To: Roy Beavers 

 Mr Beavers

A small note on abuse of power and such....................


Wille Borlin



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The Nov. 2000 issue of Acres USA carried the following note on
rBGH-treated milk (see: http://www.acresusa.com )

Journalists Win in Fox TV/Monsanto Scandal

Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, two award-winning journalists fired by 
the Fox TV network in 1998 after producing a hard-hitting TV series 
on Monsanto's controversial reconbinant Bovine Growth Hormone, won 
a resounding victory in Tampa, Florida, recently when a jury awarded 
Akre $425,000 in damages from her former employer.  

A state court jury found that Fox Television pressured the husband 
and wife investigative team to broadcast a false, distorted and 
slanted news report.  In the process of the trial, evidence 
indicated that Fox bowed to pressure from Monsanto to kill the 
original four-part series produced by Akre and Wilson.  

Although rBGH isregularly injected into 5 to 10 percent of US dairy 
cows, it is banned in Canada, Europe, Japan, and other industrialzed 
nations.  Scientists have warned that milk and dairy products from 
rBGH-injected cows will likely contain more pus, bacteria and 
antibiotic residues than regular milk, and even more alarming, 
will contain significantly higher levels of a potent cancer tumor
promoter, called IGF-1.

Also in the same issue of ACRES, a letter to the editor discussing 
how John Stossel of ABC News 20/20 program has been taking "legal 
bribes" from agri-biz corporations and conservative think-tanks, as 
apparent pay-back for a long list of stories advocating corporate 
de-regulation, across the board.  

In particular, evidence is presented on how Stossel produced a
series of stories which claim to show that there is no difference
between organic food products and those commercially grown with all 
the pesticides, hormones, modified genes, etc. Or worse, stories 
which claim organic foods were actually *more toxic* and even 
*poisoned to deadly levels with e-coli* as compared to non-organic 
foods.  

Turns out, Stossel fabricated the data -- no "tests" were run, 
and he simply lied -- and was subsequently "reprimanded" by ABC, 
but not fired. 

Another producer at ABC was fired in his place, as a fall-guy.  
Stossel's lying and bribe-taking was exposed by Brendan DeMelle 
of the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) and by Ted
Rose of Brill's Content.
http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/givemeafake/home.html
http://www.brillscontent.com/2000mar/features/stossel.shtml

By his own admission, he received more than a cool quarter-million 
in cash from a series of "lectures" given to conservative think-tank
organizations and agri-biz interests.

Also see:
http://www.fair.org/activism/stossel-organics.html
http://www.fair.org/media-outlets/stossel.html.

The ABC news organizations and journalists like to portray themselves 
as honest and genuine journalists, but the lying and fakery by Stossel,
designed to destroy the organic foods industry as payback for "legal"
bribe-money he received, was given a tacit nod of approval by ABC
high-ups, such as chairman David Westin.  

Stossel was given a slap on the wrist, and then sent back to 
continue his "work" for ABC.  Kind of reminds one of
the feudal French Court of old -- "Complaints from the peasants 
outside the castle should'nt be taken too seriously.  Find someone 
and flog them to appease the mob, and then open a fresh bottle of 
Champagne!"

James DeMeo

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