“Shocking” Almost Expired Cheese Found at Clairemont Elementary
Decatur Metro | October 1, 2010I swear, if I talked or reported stuff like this, you people would laugh me right off the internet.
After CBS Atlanta reported earlier this week that Marietta City School employees had been serving children expired food for lunch, all the Atlanta news agencies have been buzzing about potentially expired lunch food in school warehouses and refrigerators.
Somehow the City Schools of Decatur got itself wrapped into a CBS follow-up story yesterday where they gave the network access to the CSD’s lunchrooms and to the school system’s nutritional director Allison Goodman.
However, instead of highlighting to complete LACK of expired food or food warehouses at CSD, OR the school system’s focus on local produce initiatives, CBS Atlanta honed in on an off-hand comment by Goodman that CBS Atlanta reporter Crystal Cruz deemed “shocking”: cheese near-expiration found at the back of a freezer!
Feel free to watch the segment for yourself HERE.
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Uh! Be warned that if you do click there and watch the segment you will have wasted several minutes of your life.
Indeed. But hell if I was going to be the only one!
Every once in a while, I feel like I have an obligation to call BS on news outlets when they treat our lives and efforts as other people’s entertainment. (Anyone else remember that weird “dangerous playgrounds” segment?) This is one of those times.
Fool me once shame on me…. fool me again… shame on… trash tv.
I do press relations at work and I must say it’s getting harder and harder to find places to place legitimate stories that aren’t sensational.
If I may….”Local resident says she’s at her whit’s end to accomplish basic functions of her job thanks to sensationalized media. What’s next for this working warrior? Find out tonight at 11.”
Whit’s end? DM will go to any length to promote a local business, even a gone and lamented one.
Next on CBS Atlanta: Dozens of students at Decatur High School are almost pregnant. Could your child be among the afflicted? Don’t miss the shocking discovery by our investigative team!
Excellent.
STINKY CHEESE CLOSES SCHOOL, STORY AT 11.
Cut the cheese, guys.
Cheese touch reported at Renfroe.
Funny how CBS almost has good ratings.
very funny. i wish i gouda been there.
that’s gouda, but I’m sure DM can do cheddar…
Dear CBS Atlanta,
You are horrible at what you do.
Sincerely,
TeeRuss
Even stupid news is worth watching if someone you know is in it, and to my suprise their are a bunch of shots of my daughter eating, hopefully not the dreaded borderline cheese. She is going to be pysched when I show her this clip.
Local parent contemplates suing school for feeding daughter nearly-expired cheese. See the Story at 6 & 11!
This made me think of Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” when I read it…*sigh* It’s like the media aren’t happy unless they’re making us all feel under seige at all times.
It’s really worse than ever. The only reporters I can count on are those who have been around forever. I do have to say Adam Murphy from 46 ran 5 stories on one of our clients and a scam that stole his money and the bad guy ended up with a federal investigation and charges in several states! But you can’t just pitch anything that covers broader social issues and injustice anymore; everything has to have an angle and a problem for them to solve. There are a few folks like Carrie Teegardin and Alan Judd at the AJC who still do real reporting, but often TV news leaves me feeling like I need bath!
CBS Atlanta: Tonight at 11, we put the Tough Questions to the Big Cheese.
is cbs the one with Dagmar Midcap?
is she still doing the weather?
I don’t guess you watch them much (nor do I). Dagmar left about a month ago;
http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2010/09/07/wgcl-tv-officially-announces-dagmar-midcaps-departurew/
Can’t say I watch too much TV, unless you count netflix instant for movies. I think I’ve seen 5 Hrs of broadcast tv in the past 2 months.
They really should fire their fromagiere.
Mine is available. The recession has forced me to cut down on my live-in staff.
This is shocking. Please tell me you haven’t had to give up your sommelier!! Your life must be so… empty.
Life empty? – yes.
Wine bottles empty? – no. Can’t get that twistily-doo-hickey to work! Maybe the Petr
us requires a special extra costly French-made hickey-ellier.
Well at least they got in a plug for Decatur’s Farm to School initiative!
I’ve never met an expired cheese I didn’t like.
TV news is almost news.
If it bleeds, it leads. And I never met a moldy cheese I didn’t love.