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CONSUMER RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

They too often may be nothing more than a lobbying coalition of corporate owners and operators or maybe an industry front posing as an organization sensitive to consumer interests! Making the problem worse is the news media too often cannot or does not discern this potential conflict of interest when they interview academicians and the leaders of these biased non-profit organizations. Consequently, the news story turns out not objective but biased putting forth the subjective interests of a particular industry at the expense of consumers, better government, a safer environment, food supply and so on.

The trick is how to get journalists to lift this veil of secrecy and expose the biased academicians and these suspect non-profit organizations as having vital financial links to business interests? Considering that journalism typically does not draw the best and brightest minds into the field of journalism, compound this with the fact that TV news is essentially nothing more than a headline service with little in-depth coverage,consequently you may rarely see the corporate conglomerates veil of secrecy getting exposed.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: NUTRITION ACTION HEALTHLETTER NOVEMBER 2000

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