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Many reporters, in a defense of their unethical brethren, have asserted erroneously that Food Lion never directly challenged the substance of ABC’s report. In a letter to the network, Richard Wyatt, attorney for Food Lion, wrote: “Food Lion has publicly maintained since the night of the PrimeTime Live broadcast on Nov. 5, 1992, that the show was false.” In truth, ABC, through its lawyers, opposed every attempt by Food Lion to introduce evidence of the falsity of the show.
When ABC “investigators” initially failed to get jobs at Food Lion because they had no supermarket experience or grocery job references, the UFCW, which brought the ABC Food Lion “story” in the first place, put pressure on a Pennsylvania grocery store to provide fraudulent references. If the supermarket chain couldn’t be unionized, the UFCW reasoned, it had to be destroyed by any means.
Daniel John Sobieski
