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COMMENTS: Train Dropper
Normally the safety recall of accessories for Barbie dolls would not make the network newscasts--but because this was the third such move by Mattel in just over a month, both NBC and ABC assigned a reporter to the lead paint scare. ABC's Betsy Stark took the softer consumerist angle, finding a toy store that has actually set up a shelf display Not Made In China. NBC's Andrea Mitchell tried to find the harder angle, investigating the "gutted" funding of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission. She came up with the hilarious visual of the "lone inspector in a cramped one-room lab to test toys for the entire country." He lifted a train set above a designated height--and dropped it.
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