The NY Times checks up on Chile
Last March Chile’s salmon reputation took a hard hit from the international media; and worse yet, from the leading news source (The NYT) in its principle market (The USA). The disease ISA has converted into a black cloud of doom looming over southern Chile – as this year’s salmon production projections continue to decline, thousands of farming and processing plant workers are losing their jobs. Although last year’s story did indeed have various accounts of misconstrued information, the Times recognized its error in an editor’s note some weeks later. On Wednesday of this week the paper did a follow-up article on whether or not SalmonChile and the national authorities are actually doing all of the industry improvements they had claimed in their defence last year. (See "Chile Takes Steps to Rehabilitate Its Lucrative Salmon Industry" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/world/americas/05salmon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=world ). The recent article is much more consequent with the facts compared to last year, and Chile’s salmon industry spokesmen shouldn’t have much to say in terms of media foul play.
