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Nightline #989473

ABC Special for Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011

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  • Taped segment with Ryan Owens (ABC), Heart Attack Grill former spokes-model Blair River, Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso‡, author Marion Nestle, and Heart Attack Grill spokes-model Ernie Hart‡ re: Jon Basso’s use of morbidly obese people to promote his Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona.
  • Taped segment with Terry Moran (ABC), former NPR Senior Vice President Ron Schiller, conservative media critic Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, “New Yorker” media critic Ken Auletta‡, conservative activist James O’Keefe‡, and political analyst Juan Williams‡ re: secretly recorded comments by Ron Schiller that have called into question public funding for National Public Radio.
  • Taped segment with John Donvan (ABC), 100-year-old twins Inez Harries‡ and Venice Shaw‡, University of California-Riverside Dr. Howard Friedman, and unidentified others re: new research findings about longevity.
  • Reporter(s):
    Owens, Ryan;
    Donvan, John
    Duration:
    00:25:00

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