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Both CBS and ABC turned to the potential dangers to children of globalization. ABC made the bigger splash, dispatching David Kerley to kick off its Made in China series. Kerley accompanied Curt Stoelting, boss of RC2 Corp, the toy company that markets Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends as he visited factories where wooden blocks had been tainted with lead-based paint. Stoelting tried to reassure us with his new procedures for screening paint, his tracking system with date codes and his "hi-tech X-ray guns" whose "beams can detect more than a half dozen heavy metals." CBS had the more serious story, as John Blackstone reported on a newspaper expose in The Observer of London of a New Delhi sweatshop with "children as young as ten sewing clothing carrying the GAP label." GAP--"a retailer that has long promoted itself as socially responsible"--has destroyed the garments the sweatshop produced and has promised to pay for education and job training for the children. "This is not what the company wants us to think of when we think of GAP Kids."
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