Stories by Bill Walker
How is it that the mainstream news failed to notice a "study" saying pregnant women should eat more mercury-laden fish was an industry snow job?
Posted on Oct 11, 2007
Schwarzenegger has become the GOP's Al Gore but the trouble is that his "environmentalism" isn't about curbing our reckless consumption; it's about having more cool choices -- if you can afford them.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007
With an abundance of evidence documenting that the Alar scar was not an unfounded scare but a legitimate consumer uprising that pressured government and industry to do the right thing, why does the news media continue to repeat the myths and misconceptions of Alar? The answer is spin -- a well-financed campaign, continuing to this day, by the apple and chemical industries to discredit the Alar story and rewrite history. On the tenth anniversary of the Feb. 25, 1989 60 Minutes broadcast, this article presents the facts about the case.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
With an abundance of evidence documenting that the Alar scar was not an unfounded scare but a legitimate consumer uprising that pressured government and industry to do the right thing, why does the news media continue to repeat the myths and misconceptions of Alar? The answer is spin -- a well-financed campaign, continuing to this day, by the apple and chemical industries to discredit the Alar story and rewrite history. On the tenth anniversary of the Feb. 25, 1989 60 Minutes broadcast, this article presents the facts about the case.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
