Transcript: Clearing Up a Sock Misunderstanding

SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
12-15-2007
Clearing Up a Sock Misunderstanding

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 13:00-14:00 PM


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NPR reporters are used to covering controversial issues like abortion or stem cell research. NPR's Adam Davidson didn't expect trouble when he started to work on a story about socks. He offers this Reporter's Notebook on what happened next.

ADAM DAVIDSON: I get a call from the CFO of a big apparel company. He says people in the sock industry are talking about me, and they don't like me. They think I'm pro-tariff. Later, a sock factory owner tells me he doesn't trust me. He thinks I'm anti-tariff.

Before I started this story, I had no ...

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