No News to Report
After combing the internet for some important, or even unimportant news to report to you, the always demanding PositiveMode news-cognoscenti, I have found nothing. Nothing in the Mainstream Media. Nothing in the Sidestream Media (nothing in the less-well defined Midstream Media, either).But wait. While typing this post, I couldn't believe that Rumsfeld having a plan to win in Iraq was the only big news (seriously, that's what everyone's leading with - CNN, Fox, MSNBC, PizzaHut), so I did one last check around my sources and found the big one:
Bowflex a little $ore: CPSC says Nautilus will pay $950,000 for failing to report defects, injuries from fitness machines. (color to text added by PositiveMode)
For those of you who don't know, I am slightly obsessed with infomercials (I try not to develop obsessions, or sometimes conversely (inversely?) attempt to develop as many obsessions as possible so as to bring balance to my humanly existence) and the few iterations of the Bowflex Show (that's really what infomercials should be called, as in the Ronco Show, or the Magic Bullet Show), while not at the top of my list of favorites, are certainly among those I will stay on watching from the point I come across one to the next half-hour timeslot, at which time I will renew my ongoing search for a rerun of Simon & Simon or Renegade, starring Lorenzo Lamas). But on with the big news...
Apparently, there are some things that Bowflex decided to edit out of the infomercial:
"Among other injuries, the CPSC alleges that Nautilus knew of 27 incidents when the backboard bench broke apart and collapsed. The Vancouver, Wash.-based company allegedly knew but did not report to CPSC that consumers suffered back, disc and neck injuries and falls resulting in chipped teeth."
With any luck, PositiveMode's breaking of this story will prevent some injuries among my loyal readers, but also not so reduce the sales of Bowflex to bring the infomercial off the air (the optimal effect would be, of course, that Bowflex would need to run the infomercial even more so as to offset the decreased sales wrought by the investigative prowess of PositiveMode).
In the interest of fair and equal time, here is a link to Bowflex's home page.
posted by PositiveMode @ 11:41 AM
2 Comments:
is having a well-sculpted body worth the risk of neck and back injuries? luckily, i don't have to make this determination, because i'm naturally built like a greek god. but it's something for other readers to consider.
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