The ABC News producers obtained jobs at two Food Lion grocery stores by submitting fraudulent job applications with false references and work histories. They secretly videotaped store operations with hidden cameras and aired a report alleging unsafe food handling practices. Food Lion sued ABC for fraud, trespass, and unfair business practices. A court found ABC liable for fraud for the false job applications and trespassing for secretly videotaping in non-public areas without permission. The case established that journalists are not exempt from laws like trespassing and deception.
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Vi på IVT Center Värme & Kylteknik i Vassmolösa har marknadens bredaste sortiment. Hos oss hittar du bergvärmepumpar, jordvärmepumpar, sjövärmepumpar, grundvattenvärmepumpar, luft/vattenvärmepumpar, luft/luftvärmepumpar och solvärmelösningar för både villor och fastigheter.
Saddle is Supportive arrangement for a rider or any cargo/load, fixed firmly to an animal's back by a belt.
Now saddles come with variety of styles, intended for a specific riding discipline
Open data and apps for people with a handicap
How to make your new kind of open data? How can you translate data to people with a mental disability? In this talk I talk about the opportunity to work with data from other organizations that work in the sector for people with a disability, rather than the Government. And most of all how you can make them accessible with apps specific made for people who haven't the mental capacity to read / write!
Presentazione dell'azienda florovivaistica Vivai Lazzaro, azienda di Vivai Saonara, Padova. L'azienda produce nelle proprie serre e distribuisce piante da giardino, arbusti da frutto, piante ornamentali, cipressi, pioppi e molte altre piante.
David Cuillier offered this 39-page handout to journalists attending APME's Phoenix NewsTrain on April 6-7, 2018. Cuillier is associate professor at and director of the University of Arizona School of Journalism. This handout was produced by Cuillier, Charles N. Davis from the University of Georgia and Joel Campbell from Brigham Young University, all three SPJ newsroom trainers in freedom of information (www.spj.org). It includes sections on the news stories possible with public records, strategies for accessing public records, and resources on access and on data. It accompanies Cuillier's Phoenix NewsTrain presentation of the same name. A second handout with the presentation is a pop quiz on Arizona public records. NewsTrain is a training initiative of Associated Press Media Editors (APME). More info: http://bit.ly/NewsTrain
ConsumersLearning ObjectivesAfter completing this chap.docxmaxinesmith73660
Consumers
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
• Describe the nature and history of consumer advocacy.
• Outline the principal issues surrounding product safety.
• Explain the forms of deceptive advertising.
• Describe the problems surrounding the targeting of vulnerable groups.
• Describe the different unfair sales tactics.
Associated Press/Robert F. Bukaty
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CHAPTER 4Section 4.1 Introduction
Chapter Outline
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Consumer Advocacy
History of Consumer Advocacy
4.3 Product Safety
Safety and User Reviews
Unsafe Automobiles
4.4 Deceptive Advertising
Deceptive Food Packaging
Deception Versus Puffery
Punishment for Deceptive Advertising
4.5 Targeting Vulnerable Groups
Child Advertising
4.6 Unfair Sales Tactics
Misuse of Legal Tactics
4.7 Conclusion
4.1 Introduction
The Beech-Nut company manufactured an apple juice for babies that contained no apple juice
whatsoever (Hartley, 1993). Exxon advertised that one of its brands of gasoline made engines
cleaner and reduced auto-maintenance costs, a claim that it did not substantiate (Federal Trade
Commission, 1996). Hundreds of toy products manufactured in China were recalled in a 1-year
period for containing toxic lead paint or presenting a choking and strangulation hazard. These are
just a few of the hundreds of consumer complaints against businesses that have grabbed head-
lines over the years.
Let the buyer beware! This is a general word of warning to consumers that we have all heard in our
buying experience. The warning alerts us to the fact that the products we buy may not be qual-
ity items as the seller claims, and that the burden may fall on us as consumers to research those
products before we purchase them. However, although this warning is good advice, it does not
apply to an array of products we routinely buy. This is because in the United States we have laws
in place that prevent businesses from taking advantage of consumers, and in fact many businesses
zealously guard their reputation as manufacturers or retailers of high-quality items.
Indeed, even in bygone eras, consumers had some protection. The ancient Babylonian Code of
Hammurabi (which we mentioned in Chapter 1), from around 1750 BCE, gave this stern warn-
ing to building contractors: “If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it
properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put
to death” (trans. 1915 by L. W. King, section 229; see http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/
hamcode.asp#text). If we go back further in time, to hunter-gatherer days when people lived in
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CHAPTER 4Section 4.2 Consumer Advocacy
small tribes, we can imagine th.
Saddle is Supportive arrangement for a rider or any cargo/load, fixed firmly to an animal's back by a belt.
Now saddles come with variety of styles, intended for a specific riding discipline
Open data and apps for people with a handicap
How to make your new kind of open data? How can you translate data to people with a mental disability? In this talk I talk about the opportunity to work with data from other organizations that work in the sector for people with a disability, rather than the Government. And most of all how you can make them accessible with apps specific made for people who haven't the mental capacity to read / write!
Presentazione dell'azienda florovivaistica Vivai Lazzaro, azienda di Vivai Saonara, Padova. L'azienda produce nelle proprie serre e distribuisce piante da giardino, arbusti da frutto, piante ornamentali, cipressi, pioppi e molte altre piante.
David Cuillier offered this 39-page handout to journalists attending APME's Phoenix NewsTrain on April 6-7, 2018. Cuillier is associate professor at and director of the University of Arizona School of Journalism. This handout was produced by Cuillier, Charles N. Davis from the University of Georgia and Joel Campbell from Brigham Young University, all three SPJ newsroom trainers in freedom of information (www.spj.org). It includes sections on the news stories possible with public records, strategies for accessing public records, and resources on access and on data. It accompanies Cuillier's Phoenix NewsTrain presentation of the same name. A second handout with the presentation is a pop quiz on Arizona public records. NewsTrain is a training initiative of Associated Press Media Editors (APME). More info: http://bit.ly/NewsTrain
ConsumersLearning ObjectivesAfter completing this chap.docxmaxinesmith73660
Consumers
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
• Describe the nature and history of consumer advocacy.
• Outline the principal issues surrounding product safety.
• Explain the forms of deceptive advertising.
• Describe the problems surrounding the targeting of vulnerable groups.
• Describe the different unfair sales tactics.
Associated Press/Robert F. Bukaty
4
fie66722_04_c04_083-110.indd 83 3/2/12 9:42 AM
CHAPTER 4Section 4.1 Introduction
Chapter Outline
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Consumer Advocacy
History of Consumer Advocacy
4.3 Product Safety
Safety and User Reviews
Unsafe Automobiles
4.4 Deceptive Advertising
Deceptive Food Packaging
Deception Versus Puffery
Punishment for Deceptive Advertising
4.5 Targeting Vulnerable Groups
Child Advertising
4.6 Unfair Sales Tactics
Misuse of Legal Tactics
4.7 Conclusion
4.1 Introduction
The Beech-Nut company manufactured an apple juice for babies that contained no apple juice
whatsoever (Hartley, 1993). Exxon advertised that one of its brands of gasoline made engines
cleaner and reduced auto-maintenance costs, a claim that it did not substantiate (Federal Trade
Commission, 1996). Hundreds of toy products manufactured in China were recalled in a 1-year
period for containing toxic lead paint or presenting a choking and strangulation hazard. These are
just a few of the hundreds of consumer complaints against businesses that have grabbed head-
lines over the years.
Let the buyer beware! This is a general word of warning to consumers that we have all heard in our
buying experience. The warning alerts us to the fact that the products we buy may not be qual-
ity items as the seller claims, and that the burden may fall on us as consumers to research those
products before we purchase them. However, although this warning is good advice, it does not
apply to an array of products we routinely buy. This is because in the United States we have laws
in place that prevent businesses from taking advantage of consumers, and in fact many businesses
zealously guard their reputation as manufacturers or retailers of high-quality items.
Indeed, even in bygone eras, consumers had some protection. The ancient Babylonian Code of
Hammurabi (which we mentioned in Chapter 1), from around 1750 BCE, gave this stern warn-
ing to building contractors: “If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it
properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put
to death” (trans. 1915 by L. W. King, section 229; see http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/
hamcode.asp#text). If we go back further in time, to hunter-gatherer days when people lived in
84
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp#text
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp#text
CHAPTER 4Section 4.2 Consumer Advocacy
small tribes, we can imagine th.
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Strategic Planning Outline
I. Title Page
II. Table of Contents
III. Executive Summary
IV. Strategic Plan Part 1: Existing Business or New Business Division; Vision, Mission, and Value Proposition
V. Strategic Plan Part 2: SWOTT Analysis – Internal and External Environmental Analysis; Supply and Value Chain Analysis
VI. Strategic Plan Part 3: Assumptions, Risk and Change Management Plan; Summary of Strategic Objectives; Balanced Score Card and its impact on stakeholders; the Communication Plan
VII. Conclusion
VIII. Reference Page
Sample Project #2 Part 1
I. Introduction
A. Attention Statement/ Briefly state the problem:
1. Hello and thank you for joining us as we discuss a very important issue for the citizens of California.
2. Briefly state the problem: The LA Times reported on October 11, 2012 that “The new California Report estimated 590,000 human papillomavirus infections, 250,000 trichomoniasis infections, 180,000 cases of chlamydia, and 2,900 HIV infections in California in 2011.” We obviously need to do something to help reduce these rates.
B. That is why I propose that the state of California should legalize prostitution. ”
II. Significance
A. Harm 1: Keeping prostitution illegal hurts the health of Californians.
1. According to the August 1, 2012 New York Times, over half off all sexually transmitted diseases are originally passed through the act of prostitution.
2. Since prostitutes and customers are engaging in an illegal activity, they are less likely to report an STD.
3. Since prostitutes don’t have access to quality healthcare, they are less likely to seek medical attention for an STD and are therefore more likely to pass it on to future customers.
B. Harm 2: The status quo is a drain on resources.
1. Since prostitutes do not have access the adequate healthcare, they must rely on emergency rooms or the anonymity of clinics. This crowds these facilities and costs taxpayers money.
2. Dr. Joe Hamilton, a leading researcher in criminology, explains in the February 2013 Mother Jones, that “ Numerous legal commentators point out that using law enforcement resources against prostitution reduces substantially the resources available to fight serious crimes committed against persons or property. This nation desperately needs more efforts applied to solving those crimes, because arrests are being made in connection with only about 20% of them.”
3. The status quo leads to jail/prison overcrowding. Each time a prostitute or customer is arrested, he or she must spend a minimum of 24 hours in jail and then be presented to a judge. This costs taxpayers money and takes the space in jail that could be used for more violent offenders. It also slows down our judicial system by taking unnecessary time from judges.
III. Inherency
A. Making prostitution illegal was to act as a deterrent, but people still engage in this activity o ...
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Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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1. ABC and Food Lion
Investigative journalism and ethics*
*Some information for this presentation from: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-
law-spring-2012/landmark-food-lion-case.edu/comm/comm403_jsb15/foodlion.html
2. The Story
• The landmark Food Lion case
• Kristen Rasmussen (
• Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain
access to private facilities for newsgathering activities
are not protected by the First Amendment and may be
liable for trespass or other offenses, a federal
appellate court ruled more than a dozen years ago in a
ruling that remains the leading case on the issue.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
3. The Story
• In November 1992, two ABC News producers obtained
jobs at Food Lion grocery stores in North and South
Carolina by submitting applications with false
references, misrepresenting their educational and
employment experiences on their résumés and omitting
their current employment with the network.
• ABC broadcasted a report on “PrimeTime Live” alleging
that Food Lion’s meat department at those stores
required employees to engage in unsafe, unhealthy or
illegal practices, including selling old meat that was
washed with bleach to kill odor, selling cheese that had
been gnawed by rats and working off the time clock.
4. What Reporters Did at Food Lion
• Each worked undercover only one or two weeks at the
store, and while there used hidden cameras to secretly
record grocery store employees treating, wrapping and
labeling meat, cleaning machinery and discussing meat-
department practices.
5. Lawsuit
• Food Lion sued ABC in July 1995 in federal court in
Greensboro, N.C., alleging fraud, breach of the duty of
loyalty, trespass and unfair trade practices under North
Carolina law. The chain argued that ABC used illegal
newsgathering methods to obtain the information for the
report.
• In December 1996, a jury found ABC liable for fraud,
trespass and disloyalty. The next month, the same jury
awarded Food Lion $1,400 in compensatory damages and
$5.5 million in punitive damages for fraud, along with $2 in
nominal damages for breach of loyalty and trespass. But the
U.S. District Court found the punitive award excessive and
reduced it to $315,000.
6. Appeals Court Conclusions
• Perhaps more significantly, though, the appeals court
concluded that the ABC producers trespassed.
• The court explained that the journalists had permission
to be in the stores where they worked because Food Lion
had hired them, but they did not have permission to
secretly videotape footage in non-public areas of the
store for use on ABC because Food Lion had not
consented to their presence for that purpose.
7. What the Courts Decided
• The court held that the lower court correctly
declined to apply a First Amendment analysis to
Food Lion’s breach of loyalty and trespass
claims.
• The laws regarding employee loyalty and
trespass were laws of general application, from
which the press could not be exempt, and the
application of those laws to the media would
have merely “an ‘incidental effect’ on
newsgathering,” the court found.
8. Jury Award
• The jury refused to award punitive damages
against the reporters, Dale and Barnett. In post-
trial proceedings the district court ruled that the
punitive damages award was excessive, and
Food Lion accepted a remittitur to a total of
$315,000.
9. Proving
• To prove fraud under North Carolina law, the plaintiff
must establish that the defendant (1) made a false
representation of material fact, (2) knew it was false
(or made it with reckless disregard of its truth or
falsity), and (3) intended that the plaintiff rely upon it.
In addition, (4) the plaintiff must be injured by
reasonably relying on the false representation.
• It is undisputed that Dale and Barnett knowingly made
misrepresentations with the aim that Food Lion rely on
them. Thus, only the fourth element of fraud, injurious
reliance, is at issue. Food Lion claimed two categories
of injury resulting from the lies on the job applications:
the costs associated with hiring and training new
employees (administrative costs) and the wages it paid
to Dale and Barnett.
10. Another Side of this Story
• ABC's own admissions showed that profits, not public
service, motivated the segment. ABC aired the segment
during the "sweeps period," the week in which
viewership determines advertising rates. ABC vice
president Richard Wald testified that "one rating point
of the evening news is worth millions to the bottom
line.“
• Economics is paramount in the news business, Wald
said. Since World War II "the news was distributed to
the public, but it was sold to an advertiser. And what
the advertiser bought was not the quality of the news
but the quality of the audience.““
Accuracy in Media: http://www.aim.org/publications/special_reports/foodlion.html
11. Other Testimony
• Important dollars-and-cents testimony came from Robert Lissit of
the S. I Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse
University, a expert on TV content analysis.
• Under questioning by Michael J. Mueller of the Akin, Gump trial
team, Professor Lissit testified that he found that PrimeTime Live
aired 141 segments involving hidden cameras from August 1989,
when the program began, through May 1996--80 original shows, 50
reruns and updates,and 11 miscellaneous.
• The highest concentration, 35 of the 80, came during the so-called
"sweeps period" of September through November. October and
November, he said, "are the two months generally believed to
provide the greatest return, the highest earnings for a network."
November is the most important month for ratings for local
stations. He said, "The higher the rating the higher the
[advertising]rate. The more they can charge for the commercials.
12. The Question of
• The debate over ethics in this case continues in the
court of public opinion, as well as in newsrooms and
corporate boardrooms across the country. While there
are legitimate questions to pose about the morality of
Food Lion’s actions, most of the discussion focuses on
journalism ethics and issues of honesty, accuracy and
fairness.
• There is a pivotal question: Is it ever justifiable for a
journalist to violate the principle of honesty to honor
the principle upon which journalism is founded, a duty
to provide the public with meaningful, accurate and
comprehensive information about significant issues?
See this website for more information:
http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/2125/abc-and-food-lion-the-
ethics-questions/
13. The Question of
Timothy Lynch, assistant director of the Cato
Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, says
this: The media should expose corporate
misconduct. But journalists must respect the rights
of others and operate within the bounds of the law.
That’s the moral of Food Lion v. ABC News.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/food-lion-case-are-
journalists-above-law