ABC condemned them. On the day of the punitive verdict, January 22, Fox News Channel ran Food Lion's video of clips from ABC's original footage. The tape that Food Lion presented is a gross distortion of what actually occurred. It lost that lawsuit. And the reason is not that anybody in the ABC hierarchy wants to do it.
Contract is up.
They're afraid she'll leave. And she's exercising great influence. If Sawyer really believes in her show's story then she should be willing to participate in a real debate over its content, not just say the jury didn't deal with its accuracy and then dedicate her whole program to the controversy but refuse take on Food Lion's criticisms point by point.