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Ethics presentation(1)
1. Food Lion v. ABC
ABC’s Primetime Live is tipped off about unsanitary
practices at Food Lion grocery stores.
Tainted meat was apparently being sold, along with
products with past due dates.
Dirty cutting and packaging equipment were
apparently being used.
2. Continued:
“The broadcast included, for example, videotape that
appeared to show Food Lion employees repackaging and
redating fish that had passed the expiration date,
grinding expired beef with fresh beef, and applying
barbeque sauce to chicken past its expiration date in
order to mask the smell and sell it as fresh in the
gourmet food section. The program included statements
by former Food Lion employees alleging even more
serious mishandling of meat at Food Lion stores across
several states.”
3. What ABC ended up doing
Producers applied for jobs at Food Lions with fake
resumes and manufactured references.
Used hidden cameras to get footage of the different
transgressions being committed.
Edited film and presented it in a way that wasn’t
entirely true to actual events.
4. Food Lion fights back
Food Lion sues ABC, but did “not sue for defamation,
but focused on how ABC gathered its information
through claims for fraud, breach of duty of loyalty,
trespass, and unfair trade practices.”
Launches a salvo at ABC, a special that details how
sanitary their conditions are and exposes the
discrepancies with ABC’s report.
Special shows outtakes that include what seems to be
ABC setting up some of the dirty conditions, as well as
a biased attitude against Food Lion.
5. Supreme Court Ruling
Court decisions originally favor Food Lion, but are
overturned.
While the court determined that what ABC did was
wrong, it could not be proven that ABC caused the lost
profits.
6. Journalistic conduct
ABC reporters were seen on film saying things like
“let’s get them!” and cursing when employees actually
cleaned up and did their job.
Is this okay?
Is this proper behavior for a journalist? Why or why
not?
7. Was it right? Was it worth it?
While the journalists did serve a purpose, did they do
it the right way?
Was it worth it for them to unearth the facts that came
to light thanks to their work, but through questionable
tactics?
Would you do what ABC did?
How could ABC done a better job with the case?
What would you have done differently?
8. Tainting the information
Though facts were exposed, they were tainted because
of the methods used to get them.
They ended up hurting their cause at the same time
that they were making it.
9. The bottom line
As important as it is to break news and get stories as
journalists, it is equally important to make sure you are
being ethical while you do it.