>While we are talking about "rats in the woodpile" I still can't help
>but wonder if some of the negative responses to 20/20 weren't
>orchestrated ahead of time.  Remember the letters from formula
>feeding moms that got to HHS complaining about the campaign even
>before it began?  Now just how did they know about it ahead of
>time?  Could it be...?  Hmmmmm.
Winnie, I think that this could be true.  The worst and most "hostile"
posts were within the first hour or two. There were only angry ones for a
while, then the comments calmed down. If you and I knew that the 20/20
segment was coming perhaps the formula companies did too. ;) The forum
posts could have even been from just a few writers. All one had to do was
make up a name to log on with. (I noticed that Dr. Nancy Wight used her
real identity.)

I, too, remember the letters from guilt-ridden mothers who had been
chastised for not breastfeeding that were sent to HHS.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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