All-Natural Suspicion

• Should you decide to publish an article that harms Melaleuca by providing an inaccurate picture, we will be forced to take all appropriate steps to protect the company�s interests. In particular, as you likely know, any inaccurate statements about Melaleuca that cause reputational or other damage to the company would give us grounds for a defamation lawsuit against the Seattle Weekly," intoned LaClare to our young editorial fellow.  You are in journalism and this comment surprised you??? what journalism school did you go to again? FYI: This is standard corporate policy for a ANY business to protect itself against erroneous information.  You don't have to  be lawyer to figure this out. Again what was your  complaint Seattle Weekly??

• I work for Melaleuca at the home office, and I love our products! Not because I work for the company, but because the products work! And because our products are concentrated, they are a much better value than anything I used to buy at the store. If you would like to know more, please visit melaleuca.com - we have a great introduction on our site.

• I agree with the comments above. What do Mr. Vandersloot's politics, religion, number of children, or contributions to anyone have to do with anything?! Do you know what the politics, religion, or family size are of the people you buy gas from? The CEO or managers of Wal-Mart? And since when is it wrong for the owner of a company to make more money than the people that work for him? Do you make more money than your boss? What WAS your point in writing this article, anyway. (By the way, that 96 oz bottle of detergent you tried to do a comparison on? It's actually 96 USES - I've never found another detergent that uses only 1 oz per load!)

• i had a great course about this issue last year and i wish i would have found an article like this as a reference before. why couldn\'t you have written this when I was in that class!! seriously, for anyone that reads it...whatever political party you like or dislike, just enjoy moving that out of the way now and look at the article in terms of how objective it is. this is the question our professor would often ask: can you tell whether the author personally supports or doesn\'t the support the subject? If the answer is a prevailing yes or no, then the article has obvious issues (unless it\'s an editorial). surely I\'m not the only one who notices the author doesn\'t like the company or the guy. I don\'t know much about that company or whatever stuff it sels but I get the feeling that after reading the article, I still don\'t.

• You know, based on how you explained the interview went, I don\'t blame someone for questioning your motives on the story. Certainly when you bring politics into it - and you use this John Foster as a reference. As I look at it, it\'s the paper that sounds like the \"I didn\'t do it.\" kid to me.

• For the sake of full disclosure, John Foster was my editor at the Rio Grande SUN, a New Mexico news weekly. And he is indeed one of my references.

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