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Tuesday, ABC's Mike von Fremd earned kudos for his determination to eschew sentimentality in his coverage of the southern California octuplets. His network's in-house physician Timothy Johnson now elaborate, charging that any fertility clinic that allowed such a multiple pregnancy to go ahead was engaging in "bad practice." He explained to anchor Charles Gibson why it is "inherently wrong" to have eight babies: "Obviously the mother is at great risk for complications of pregnancy and, most importantly, the babies are at enormous risk for both near term and long term medical problems and developmental problems."
Only NBC followed up on what is shaping up to be one of the largest food recalls in United States history. "Candies, ice creams, cookies, energy bars, peanut butter cracker sandwiches and large vats of peanut butter used in institutions such as schools, hospitals and nursing homes," were on Robert Bazell's checklist. The risky foods contain ingredients processed over the last 24 months at the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Georgia, where several strains of salmonella have been found. Since 2001, Bazell noted, the Food & Drug Administration had not inspected the plant's food safety directly, but had assigned that to Georgia's Department of Agriculture. When the FDA returned earlier this month it found "several violations of normal food processing procedures."
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