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FredLeonard
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Add to the list: Joy Bauer's Food Remedies. WHYY-TV seems, like a lot of cable channels and even some terrestrial channels, to have devoted its overnight hours to infomercials, the same ones over and over. Again, a diet plan promising miraculous results to lose weight and cure diseases and chronic medical conditions. And a combination of the standard infomercial in-studio presentation to an enthused audience and standard pledge drive format. This show is another WHYY-TV/Winky Dink production. This time they did mention "pledging" or "supporting" but the emphasis was on buying the DVD or the package. And this time they did mention the total prices (but the total did not appear in the graphic, it was just mentioned).
Joy Bauer is a nutrition counselor who operates a chain of "nutrition centers." The presentation offered almost no specific information about her diet plan (gotta buy the book and/or DVD for that). The local pledge hosts gave what sounded like enthusiastic endorsements for her diet program.
Latest available published reports show the president of WHYY making close to a million a year. He was hired without broadcasting experience. He was a former bureaucrat at the city water department, apparently with good political connections.
The chair of the station's board is an executive VP at ARAMark, a company which sells crap food in vending machines and school or company cafeterias and which reportedly has Mafia ties. The company has also settled charges of unfair trading practices.
Joy Bauer is a nutrition counselor who operates a chain of "nutrition centers." The presentation offered almost no specific information about her diet plan (gotta buy the book and/or DVD for that). The local pledge hosts gave what sounded like enthusiastic endorsements for her diet program.
Latest available published reports show the president of WHYY making close to a million a year. He was hired without broadcasting experience. He was a former bureaucrat at the city water department, apparently with good political connections.
The chair of the station's board is an executive VP at ARAMark, a company which sells crap food in vending machines and school or company cafeterias and which reportedly has Mafia ties. The company has also settled charges of unfair trading practices.