Capitalism at its best
Lethal medicine linked to meningitis outbreak
A report by CBS 60 Minutes, 10 March 2013
Scott Pelley reads a (rare) report on New England Compounding Center (NECC), the pharmacy behind a tainted steroid that caused a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis.
This is, overall, a decent and useful report, much too infrequent by American television standards. It could have been a lot better. This was left out by omission or commission:
(a) A list of corrupt Congresspeople who loosened the strings on this industry. (b) Sampler of interviews with such Congressional crooks, and members of the administration in charge at the time, as high as possible. (c) Investigation on how the FDA is being funded, and how it should be funded to discharge its mission properly. Unenforced laws are useless, and the Right is very good at crippling good law by simply stealthily defunding it.
Journalistic grade: C+
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