Originally posted by TAC
Peter Dunn, Vice President and General Manager
CBS 3
101 South Independence Mall East
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Dear Mr. Dunn,
I have lived in the Philadelphia area all my life. I have watched Channel 3 KYW for various TV shows and news for just about as long as I can remember. After your “Investigative Reports: Eat At Your Own Risk: Disney World,” I am appalled.
Less than six months ago, I watched a commercial from your own studio, with anchors Larry Mendte, Marc Howard, meteorologist Kathy Orr, and sports anchor Beesley Reese, that among other things, your station promised that you would not sensationalize the news. Yet this “story” about “eating at your own risk” at Walt Disney World is precisely that - pure sensationalism.
The story is completely biased against Walt Disney World. You barely state a fact that over 100 MILLION meals are served at Walt Disney World’s 350 restaurants each year, and yet the total number of people that the reporter from your sister station WBCS-TV in New York City could find that complained about bad food were 19 people. Nineteen people out of 100 MILLION. Do you realize that is 0.000019 percent ? I’m sure that there may be more people that did not file a complaint, but I do not think that this low of a percentage qualifies as the sensationalized headline “Eat At Your Own Risk.”
Locally, at least sixty-nine people became ill at the Lowes Philadelphia Hotel. Why not investigate that, instead of running some sister-station story from a place that is 1100 miles away from Philadelphia ? Why not do your own investigating of restaurants in the Philadelphia area? Why don’t you investigate your own cafeteria and find out where the scum and poisons hide in the kitchen there?
I think your entire staff needs to re-watch that commercial that you aired previously about not sensationalizing the news, and I think you need to really decide what your TV station's real purpose to the people of the Philadelphia area is. Is your station going to report the news fairly and without bias, or are you going to become the National Enquirer of TV stations?
Sincerely,
