September 19 2012, ABC News: ‘Arsenic in Rice – New Report Finds “Worrisome Levels”’: “According to a sobering report released to ‘Good Morning America’ by Consumer Reports magazine this morning, rice eaten just once a day can drive arsenic levels in the human body up 44 percent. Rice eaten twice a day can lead to a 70 percent increase in arsenic.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/arsenic-rice-report-finds-worrisome-levels/story?id=17267872
(Can’t you hear Diane Sawyer reading that “Worrisome Levels”? And “sobering report”? The best part – for ABC News – is “released to Good Morning America.” We got it and you didn’t, nah nah nah nah nah nah.)
Flash forrwaaaard:
September 6, 2013, New York Times: ‘No Immediate Risk Is Found From Arsenic Levels in Rice’ – “The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it had found no evidence that current levels of arsenic in rice pose an immediate health risk.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/health/arsenic-levels-in-rice-products-not-a-health-risk-fda-says.html?_r=0
“Arsenic is a carcinogen when consumed in large enough quantities. It occurs naturally in the environment, but it can also be an effect of industrial contamination.”
(So everything is OK, right? Well, if you are a national news person or organization, you hedge your writing with things like “No immediate risk” and “current levels” and “industrial contamination.” I wondered about that “public outcry” in Paragraph Two. The definition of “public outcry” in Major National Media is “something that fits our agenda and we can get an expert to say the government should do something.”)
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